Experience and Awe: An Expansive Approach to Everyday Aesthetics
Contemporary Aesthetics 13 (2015)
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As opposed to Melchionne and Naukkarinen, I defend an expansive definition of everyday aesthetics, one that includes festivals, tourism, and many daily activities of artists and other professionals, along with most ordinary and common experiences. I argue for continuities between aesthetics of everyday life and the aesthetics of art and nature. Looking through a window, for example, may involve aspects of all three. Although I agree with Melchionne that everyday aesthetics is closely related to questions of subjective well-being, I take a more expansive approach to this, drawing from recent psychological studies of the experience of “awe” to stress the importance of such experiences in subjective well-being, thus tying the high points of everyday aesthetics more closely with the high points in the aesthetics of art and nature.
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Paths From the Philosophy of Art to Everyday Aesthetics.Oiva Kuisma, Sanna Lehtinen & Harri Mäcklin (eds.) - 2019 - Helsinki, Finland: Finnish Society for Aesthetics.
No Tension. David Hume’s Solution to Everyday Aesthetics.María Jesús Godoy - 2021 - Espes. The Slovak Journal of Aesthetics 10 (2):11-24.
Modes of Experience: Everyday Aesthetics Between Erlebnis and Erfahrung.Giovanni Matteucci & Gioia Laura Iannilli - 2021 - Espes. The Slovak Journal of Aesthetics 10 (2):39-55.
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