What (if any) aesthetics of everyday experience should we have?

Angela Black

doi:10.58519/c2yyvx35

What (if any) aesthetics of everyday experience should we have?

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Angela Black Tulsa Community College

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58519/c2yyvx35

Keywords:

aesthetic appreciation, everyday aesthetics, aesthetic experience

Abstract

In this paper, I will show that an aesthetics of everyday experience independent of our analyses of art is absolutely essential. While the aims of discourse about art may be normative, the aims of discourse about everyday aesthetic experience are very different --- such discourse has, in part, epistemic goals, and, to the extent that it has a normative goal, such a goal is not agreement about the judgments of such experiences but about how disparate judgments can both find place in the shared aesthetic space. In other words, discourse about quotidian aesthetic experience is meta-aesthetic in character.

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Published

2024-12-31

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 1 (2024): Special Issue: The aesthetic significance of the everyday. Guest edited by Mateusz Salwa and Adam Andrzejewski

Section

The aesthetic significance of the everyday

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Black, Angela. 2024. “What (if Any) Aesthetics of Everyday Experience Should We Have?”. Aesthetic Investigations 7 (1): 28-45. https://doi.org/10.58519/c2yyvx35.