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. Edited by Andrew Light and Jonathan M. Smith I. Theorizing the Aesthetics of the Everyday 1. The Nature of Everyday Aesthetics, by Tom Leddy 2. Ideas for a Social Aesthetic, by Arnold Berleant 3. On the Aesthetics of the Everyday: Familiarity, Strangeness, and the Meaning of Place, by Arto Haapala 4. Danto and Baruchello: From Art to the Aesthetics of the Everyday, by Michael A. Principe II. Appreciating the Everyday Environment 5. Building and the Naturally Unplanned, by Pauline von Bonsdorff 6. What is the Correct Curriculum for Landscape?, by Allen Carlson 7. Wim Wenders’s Everyday Aesthetics, by Andrew Light III. Finding the Everday Aesthetic 8. Sport Viewed Aesthetically, and Even as Art?, by Wolfgang Welsch 9. The Aesthetics of Weather, by Yuriko Saito 10. Sniffing and Savoring: The Aesthetics of Smells and Tastes, by Emily Brady 11. How Can Food Be Art?, by Glenn Kuehn
