Applying Aesthetics to Everyday Life

Methodologies, History and New Directions

Lisa Giombini, Adrián Kvokacka, Lisa Giombini, Adrián Kvokacka

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781350331761
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350331785
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Art General

Applying Aesthetics to Everyday Life surveys current debates in the field of everyday aesthetics, examining its history, methodology and intersections with cognate research areas. Lisa Giombini and Adrián Kvokacka bring together an international team of renowned scholars who are shaping the present and future of the discipline.

They demonstrate how the historical origins of everyday aesthetics emerges across the history of Western aesthetic thought, from Renaissance thinkers to the modern German philosophers Baumgarten, Kant and Heidegger. Chapters shed light on the field's methodological underpinnings, tracing its theoretical foundations back to epistemology and ethics and assess the potential of everyday aesthetics as a theoretical tool. They reveal its interdisciplinary nature and how it assists various fields of inquiry, including environmental and urban aesthetics, conservation ethics and the philosophy of art.

Through fresh explorations of its origins, background and contemporary developments, this collection advances a new definition of everyday aesthetics and provides a cutting edge reflection on the world we inhabit today.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Contents
• List of figures
• Contributors
• Introduction: Rethinking roots, imagining futures
• Part I Foundations
• 1 Prosaics: Theory of everyday sensitivity as Baumgarten’s Aesthetica Practica
• 2 Kant and the place of everyday aesthetics in the Critique of the Power of Judgement
• 3 Heidegger’s ‘The Origin of the Work of Art’ and the extraordinary in everyday aesthetics
• 4 The aesthetics of popular culture as everyday aesthetics: Historical and contemporary perspectives
• 5 Whose everyday? On the cultural aesthetics of everyday life
• 6 Can we design familiarity?
• 7 Predictability, improvisation and the everyday
• Part II Applications
• 8 Rethinking the urban sublime
• 9 The use and usefulness of unused spaces: Neglected urban environment in changing perspectives
• 10 Tornadoes and the poietics of nature
• 11 Stones – our distant cousins
• 12 Aesthetics of behaviour
• 13 Aesthetics of doing house chores: Working in and with the world
• 14 Care in conservation ethics
• Index
• Copyright