Search results for "Everyday aesthetics"
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Dall’iperestetica all’anestetica: la negazione dell’umano nella società dell’apparenza
2021
Viviamo nella “società dell’immagine” che ottunde la sensibilità e produce indifferenza. Il saggio mette a fuoco la ricerca ossessiva di una bellezza superficiale e apparente in ogni ambito della vita quotidiana e la conseguente perdita dei valori morali. Per contrastare questa anestetizzazione dovuta all’esasperata tendenza all’eccesso e al superamento dei limiti del giusto, del necessario, del conveniente e del bello, il saggio propone di recuperare l’antica dimensione etico-estetica del bello in linea con alcuni interessi dell’Everyday Aesthetics. We live in the "society of the image" that obtunds sensitivity and produces indifference. The essay focuses on the obsessive search for a shal…
Transformations of the everyday. The social aesthetics of childhood
2017
Food: Ordinary Practice or Extraordinary Experience?
2021
Food and the practice of cooking hold a privileged place in contemporary aesthetics, as attested by the extensive literature that has been devoted to this topic. Food has been addressed in both Anglo-American and European studies from multiple points of view, including a cognitivist, pragmatist, phenomenological, everyday and somaesthetic perspective. In this essay I will try to identify a path that allows us to hold together these readings through the ordinary-extraordinary dichotomy. First, I shall analyze food through the lens of the extraordinary, taking into consideration some examples in which food is presented as a true work of art in museums or as an exceptional experience in increa…
Everyday Aesthetics: European Perspectives
2021
authors reflect how European and Europe-inspired thinking has affected and developed further the field of Everyday Aesthetics. The articles of the special issue are presented through their main themes and how they contribute to the contemporary discussions of the field.
Creativity and Aesthetic Experience: The Problem of the Possibility of Beauty and Sensitiveness
2004
1. CREATIVITY, POETICS AND AESTHETICS Creativity may be regarded as one of the most complicated primary categories of aesthetics, and one that is most closely connected with such traditional aesthetic categories as beauty, for instance. The fulfilment of creative work is most visible in a work of art and refers to aesthetics as a sphere of expression/manifestation. Any discussion between an artist and an art philosopher or an art critic turns into a contention of a sort concerning the question of what comes first – manifestation or perception and evaluation. The view that creative work is feasible in any sphere of cultural activity as well as in science and technology, used to predominate i…
Democratic values in the aesthetics of classic American pragmatism
2011
Abstract In the present paper an interpretation of the political dimension of pragmatic aesthetic reflection is proposed. The interconnection between politics and aesthetics in three classic American pragmatists: William James (1842–1910), John Dewey (1859–1952), and George Herbert Mead (1863–1931) is evoked. The author claims that by emphasizing the role of democratic values in philosophy and life, the classic American pragmatists encroach upon the field of the arts and aesthetics. Their emphasis put upon individual activity, free expression of thoughts, plurality of the forms of expression, and acceptance of criticism as a tool helping create better solutions in human cooperation can easi…
Forgotten Everydays. Expanding Everyday Aesthetics
2021
This special issue of “Popular Inquiry” explores some perspectives in Everyday Aesthetics looking for what is lacking in the debate on this philosophical trend.
Performative Habitats and the aesthetics of ordinary gestures
2022
Il saggio analizza il progetto artistico di Egle Oddo, Performative Habitats, alla luce dell’estetica dei gesti ordinari. Con Performative Habitats biologia, botanica e scienze naturali incontrano i molteplici linguaggi delle discipline artistiche. In un momento storico in cui il cambiamento climatico è tra le emergenze primarie, l’artista si prefigge l’obiettivo di riconvertire le pratiche quotidiane e stabilire nuove modalità di produzione artistica che siano sostenibili per l’ambiente. The essay explores Egle Oddo's artistic project, Performative Habitats, in light of the aesthetics of ordinary gestures. With Performative Habitats biology, botany and natural sciences meet the multiple la…
Estetica e vita quotidiana. Prospettive di ricercar-azione negli studi umanistici
2020
Gli studi umanistici sono in crisi ormai da diversi anni poiché in una società incentrata sul profitto questo ramo di studi appare perdente. Tuttavia, la causa non risiede nell’inutilità degli studi umanistici, ma nello iato esistente tra la cultura umanistica e quella scientifica e tecnologica, che è alla base dell’economia. Se si comprende che la prima può servire da volano alla seconda, le scienze umane possono tornare a essere il fulcro di una progettualità finalizzata al benessere collettivo e diventare un social spin-off incentrato sui valori dell’humanitas. In questa direzione l’estetica, intesa come una filosofia del sentire e dell’esperienza quotidiana, può offrire nuovi orizzonti …
Aesthetic Perspectives on Culture, Politics, and Landscape. Appearances of the “Political”
2022
This book investigates how we are involved in politically informed structures and how they appear to us. Following different approaches in contemporary aesthetics and cultural philosophy, such as everyday aesthetics, atmosphere and aestheticization, the authors explore how embedded powers in politics, education, democracy, and landscape are analyzed through aesthetics.