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Zusatztext This book offers an impressive array of essays on the ‘everyday turn’ in aesthetics, with topics ranging from historical precedents to popular culture, cities, and design. It showcases key philosophical discussions while also providing a practical understanding of the value of everyday aesthetics for cultivating better interactions with the world. Informationen zum Autor Lisa Giombini is Research Fellow in Aesthetics at Roma Tre University, Italy. Adrián Kvokacka is Associate Professor of Aesthetics at Presov University, Slovakia. Klappentext 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. Vorwort Surveys contemporary debates in the field of everyday aesthetics, exploring its history, methodology and application. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of FiguresIntroduction: Rethinking Roots, Imagining Futures , Lisa Giombini (Roma Tre University, Italy) and Adrián Kvokacka (Presov University, Slovakia) Part I: Foundations 1. Prosaics: Theory of Everyday Sensitivity as Baumgarten’s Aesthetica Practica, Katya Mandoki (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México) 2. Kant and the Place of Everyday Aesthetics in the Critique of Judgement, Adrián Kvokacka (Presov University, Slovakia) 3. Heidegger’s ‘The Origin of the Work of Art’ and the Extra-ordinary in Everyday Aesthetics, Thomas Leddy (San Jose State University, USA) 4. The Aesthetics of Popular Culture as Everyday Aesthetics: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Max Ryynänen (Aalto University, Finland) 5. Whose Everyday? On the Cultural Aesthetics of Eve...
