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The Rhythm of Time in Everyday Aesthetics

2020

Anglo-American research on aesthetics as well as that being carried out in continental Europe are increasingly interested in the topics pertaining to everyday life. However, the label “Everyday Aesthetics” apparently conveys a surprising oxymoron. After exploring the relation between Everyday and Philosophy, I shall analyse the principal theories on Everyday Aesthetics. Then, by means of anthropological interpretative tools, such as those offered by Henri Lefebvre, I will bring to the fore the concept of rhythm, as what can shed light on the fundamental value of daily life and its cyclical alternation of ordinary and extraordinary moments. According to Lefebvre, there’s no rhythm without re…

artificationmaking specialEveryday aestheticSettore M-FIL/04 - EsteticaHenri Lefebvrerhythmaesthetics of familiarextraordinary in the ordinaryEllen Dissanayake
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