日常の美学と世界制作 Aesthetics of the Familiar : Everyday Life and World-Making

Saito, Yuriko

Oxford University Press（2017/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 260 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780199672103
• DDC分類 111.85

Full Description

Yuriko Saito explores the nature and significance of the aesthetic dimensions of people's everyday life. Everyday aesthetics has the recognized value of enriching one's life experiences and sharpening one's attentiveness and sensibility. Saito draws out its broader importance for how we make our worlds, environmentally, morally, as citizens and consumers. Saito urges that we have a social responsibility to encourage cultivation of aesthetic literacy and vigilance against aesthetic manipulation. Yuriko Saito argues that ultimately, everyday aesthetics can be an effective instrument for directing the humanity's collective and cumulative world-making project for the betterment of all its inhabitants.

Everyday aesthetics has been seen as a challenge to contemporary Anglo-American aesthetics discourse, which is dominated by the discussion of art and beauty. Saito responds to controversies about the nature, boundary, and status of everyday aesthetics and argues for its legitimacy. She highlights the multi-faceted aesthetic dimensions of everyday life that are not fully accounted for by the commonly-held account of defamiliarizing the familiar.

Contents

PART I. CONCEPTS: EVERYDAY AESTHETICS AS AN ESSENTIALLY CONTESTED FIELD; PART II. CASES: FROM SKY TO EARTH; PART III. CONSEQUENCES: EVERYDAY AESTHETICS AND WORLD-MAKING