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The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: The Aesthetics of Everyday Life

The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: The Aesthetics of Everyday Life


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This book explores the aesthetics of the objects and environments we encounter in daily life. Thomas Leddy stresses the close relationship between everyday aesthetics and the aesthetics of art, but places special emphasis on neglected aesthetic terms that have particular relevance to the everyday, such as `neat,’ `messy,’ `pretty,’ `lovely,’ `cute,’ and `pleasant.’ For both the artist and the amateur, everyday aesthetics is a matter of finding the extraordinary in the ordinary.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: The Domain of Everyday Aesthetics Chapter 1: The Nature of Everyday Aesthetics Chapter 2: Aesthetic Experience and Aesthetic Properties Chapter 3: Everyday Aesthetics and the Environment Part II: A Theory of Everyday Aesthetics Chapter 4: Aesthetic Experience as Experience of Objects with Aura Chapter 5: A Bestiary of Aesthetic Terms for Everyday Contexts Chapter 6: Criticisms Actual and Possible Chapter 7: Everyday Surface Aesthetic Qualities Chapter 8: Everyday Aesthetics and the Sublime Conclusion Index

About the Author :
Thomas Leddy is Professor of Philosophy at San Jose State University.

Review :
“Thomas Leddy offers a comprehensive and compelling treatment of everyday aesthetics, discussing a wide variety of historical and contemporary sources while putting forward an interesting new theory of what it is to have an aesthetic experience. This engaging book is suitable for students, scholars, and anyone wishing to enrich their experience of everyday life.” — Sherri Irvin, University of Oklahoma “The Extraordinary in the Ordinary is a significant contribution to the newly important field of everyday aesthetics. The book provides an excellent critical overview of work in this field to date, but more importantly breaks new ground by extending our understanding of aesthetic experience and of the properties we encounter in that experience.” — Robert Stecker, Central Michigan University “Discussion of everyday aesthetics has been gaining momentum in recent years, and as well as developing his own theory of everyday aesthetics and of aesthetic experience more broadly construed, Leddy has produced an invaluable reflective consolidation of the work of major contributors to the discipline, past and present.” — Christopher Dowling, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781551114781
  • Publisher: Broadview Press Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Broadview Press Ltd
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 275
  • Sub Title: The Aesthetics of Everyday Life
  • ISBN-10: 155111478X
  • Publisher Date: 07 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 152 mm


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