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The Aesthetics of Everyday Life
Author(s): Andrew Light (Author)
- Publisher: Columbia University Press
- Publication Date: 24 Mar. 2005
- Language: English
- Print length: 240 pages
- ISBN-10: 0231135033
- ISBN-13: 9780231135030
Book Description
This imaginative new collection explores the aesthetic qualities of human relationships, sports, taste, smell, food, and natural and built environments. With essays from philosophers working in a variety of traditions in the humanities and social sciences, this collection offers an important contribution to and expansion of traditional aesthetics.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“After sleepwalking for several decades under the exclusive trance of fine art, philosophers are once again recognizing that aesthetics denotes a far wider and more significant field. In the real world of everyday living, aesthetics helps determine the clothes we wear and the food we eat, but also the company, the environments, and the beliefs we keep, and even the officials we elect. The Aesthetics of Everyday Life should be welcomed as a useful and wide-ranging collection that explores this fascinating domain.”–Richard Shusterman
