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Leddy, T., & Pérez-Henao, H. (2020). The experience of awe: an expansive approach to everyday aesthetics. Kepes, 17(22), 397–425. https://doi.org/10.17151/kepes.2020.17.22.15
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Thomas Leddy
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Horacio Pérez-Henao
Abstract
Unlike Melchionne (2013) and Naukkarinen (2013), I advocate an expansive definition of everyday aesthetics that, in addition to the most common and everyday experiences, includes festivals, tourism, and countless activities carried out daily by artists and professionals from various areas. Continuities between aesthetics of everyday life and the aesthetics of art and nature are established. For example, the act of looking through a window may involve aspects of all three aesthetics. Although I agree with Melchionne (2013) in that everyday aesthetics is closely linked to questions about the search for subjective well-being, I assume a more expansive approach based on recent psychological studies of the experience of “awe” to emphasize the importance of such experiences in subjective search, linking this way, the most outstanding aspects of everyday aesthetics, the aesthetics of art and the aesthetics of nature.
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Haapala, A. (2005). On the aesthetics of everyday: familiarity, strangeness and the meaning of place. En A. Light & J.M. Smith (Eds.), The aesthetics of everyday life (pp.39-55). New York: Columbia University Press.
Hanh, T. N. (1987). The Miracle of Mindfulness (M. Ho, tr.). Boston: Beacon Press.
Irvin, S. (2008). The Pervasiveness of the Aesthetic in Ordinary Experience. ritish Journal of Aesthetics, 48, 29-44.
Kant, I. (2013). The Critique of Practical Reason (T. Kingsmill Abbot, tr.). Proyecto Gutenberg. Recuperado de http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5683
Keltner, D. & Haidt, J. (2003). Approaching Awe, A Moral, Spiritual, And Aesthetic Emotion. Cognition and Emotion, 17, 297-314.
Leddy, T. (2012a). The extraordinary in the ordinary. Peterborough: Broadview Press.
Leddy, T. (2012b). Defending everyday aesthetics and the concept of pretty. Contemporary Aesthetics, 10. Recuperado de http://www.contempaesthetics.org/newvolume/pages/article.php?articleID=654&searchstr=leddy
Leddy, T. (2014). Everyday Aesthetics and Happiness. En L. Yuedi & C. Carter (Eds.), Aesthetics of Everyday Life: West and East (pp. 26-47). New Castle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Lintott, S. (2012). The Sublimity of Getating and Giving Birth: Toward a Feminist Conception of the Sublime. En S. Lintott & M. Sander-Staudt (Eds.), Philosophical Inquiries into Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering: Maternal Subjects (pp. 237-250). London: Routledge
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Melchionne, K. (2014). The point of everyday aesthetics. Contemporary Aesthetics, 12. Recuperado de http://www.contempaesthetics.org/newvolume/pages/article.php?articleID=700&searchstr=melchionne
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Plutchik, R. (s.f). Contrasting and Categorization of Emotions. En Wikipedia. Recuperado de https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrasting_and_categorization_of_emotions#Plutchik.27s_wheel_of_emotionsSaito, Y. (2010). Everyday Aesthetics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Shusterman, R. (2007). Asian Ars Erotica and the Question of Sexual Aesthetics. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 65, 55-68.
Shusterman, R. (2012). Thinking Through the Body: Essays on Somaesthetics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Wilde, O. The Decay of Lying. Recuperado de http://virgil.org/dswo/courses/novel/wilde-lying.pdf
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