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Overview"As the sunset swings into view, you think, ""That's beautiful."" You take a bite of cake and you think, ""Wow, that's sweet""-maybe too sweet. You hear that new song and it blows you away. You play it for your friends. The novel is wonderful, the movie disappoints, the dress looked better in the store. Aesthetic Life and Why It Matters offers three new answers to Socrates's great question about how we should live that focus on the place of aesthetic engagement in well-being. Three philosophers offer their perspectives on how aesthetic commitments move us through the world and shape our well-being, our sense of self, and our connections to others. Aesthetic engagement is a site for achievement, it cultivates individuality within a context of community, and it satisfies a hunger for exploring our differences. A closing dialogue between the authors probes some flash points in thinking about value: disagreement, subjectivism, ethnocentrism, fads and fashions, and ideology critique. Written in appealing prose, with vivid examples, a comprehensive introduction, and suggestions for further reading, the book is designed as a self-contained module in aesthetics for introductory courses in philosophy." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dominic McIver Lopes (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of British Columbia) , Bence Nanay (Professor of Philosophy and BOF Research Professor, Professor of Philosophy and BOF Research Professor, University of Antwerp) , Nick Riggle (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of San Diego)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 20.10cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 14.20cm Weight: 0.159kg ISBN: 9780197748510ISBN 10: 0197748511 Pages: 128 Publication Date: 10 October 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Unlocking Experience by Bence Nanay Chapter 2: Aesthetic Lives: Individuality, Freedom, Community by Nick Riggle Chapter 3: Getting into It: Ventures in Aesthetic Life by Dominic McIver Lopes Breakout by Dominic McIver Lopes, Bence Nanay, Nick RiggleReviewsThe volume is written in language accessible to nonspecialists and makes good use of examples...Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates; general readers. * Choice * Author InformationDominic McIver Lopes FRSC is University Killam Professor at the University of British Columbia and has written on a wide variety of topics in aesthetics, including the meaning and value of images, new technologies in the arts, and theories of art and aesthetic value. He is now writing a book on aesthetic injustice. Bence Nanay is Professor of Philosophy and BOF Research Professor at the University of Antwerp and the Director of European Network for Sensory Research. He is the author of Between Perception and Action (2013), Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception (2016) and Aesthetics: A Very Short Introduction (2019), all with Oxford University Press as well as six forthcoming books. His main focus of work these days is a project on global aesthetics. Nick Riggle is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Diego. He is the author of On Being Awesome: A Unified Theory of How Not to Suck (2017), as well as several articles on aesthetic value and why it matters. His most recent book is This Beauty: A Philosophy of Being Alive (2022). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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