The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: The Aesthetics of Everyday Life

ISBN-13: 9781551114781 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 288 str.

Thomas Leddy

Opis

By providing a perspective on aesthetics that is radically different from that of the aesthetics of art, the aesthetics of everyday life challenges assumptions within philosophy itself. In this learned but highly readable overview, Leddy explores the domain of everyday aesthetics.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: The Domain of Everyday Aesthetics

Chapter 1: The Nature of Everyday Aesthetics
Chapter 2: Aesthetic Experience and Aesthetic Properties
Chapter 3: Everyday Aesthetics and the Environment

Part II: A Theory of Everyday Aesthetics

Chapter 4: Aesthetic Experience as Experience of Objects with Aura
Chapter 5: A Bestiary of Aesthetic Terms for Everyday Contexts
Chapter 6: Criticisms Actual and Possible
Chapter 7: Everyday Surface Aesthetic Qualities
Chapter 8: Everyday Aesthetics and the Sublime

Conclusion

Index