Light, A. & J.M. Smith, 2004, The aesthetics of everyday life, Columbia University Press, New York
- Author : Light, A. & J.M. Smith
- Year : 2004
- Publisher : Columbia University Press
- Publisher's Location : New York
- ISBN : 0-231-13503-3
- Pages : 224
- Abstract : This imaginative new collection explores the aesthetic qualities of human relationships, sports, taste, smell, food, and natural and built environments. With essays from philosophers working in a variety of traditions in the humanities and social sciences, this collection offers an important contribution to and expansion of traditional aesthetics
- Comments : "As developed by Henri Lefebvre and other theorists of modernity, the concept of everyday life has proven an indispensible instrument for the analysis of contemporary culture and society. The essays in this richly varied collection build upon this vital intellectual tradition by demonstrating the centrality of aesthetic experience to the diverse modalities of the quotidian. Exploring landscape, architecture, cinema, sports, weather, and food, the contributors to this volume imaginatively and provocatively extend an older paradigm into the present and thereby confirm its relevance to the intellectual debates of the twenty-first century in which questions of place and experience prominently figure. Philosophers, environmentalists, and scholars across the humanities and social sciences are certain to welcome the appearance of this book and to engage with its arguments vigorously and enthusiastically." -- Edward Dimendberg, University of Michigan, author of Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity