Towards an expansive object and a restrictive experience in Everyday Aesthetics: A Chestertonian metaxological approach

Resumo

This article proposes to resolve an internal ambiguity in the subdiscipline called Everyday Aesthetics (EA), systematized by the researcher Horacio Pérez-Henao, according to whom the extension of aesthetics to the everyday has been done, on the one hand, by means of a consideration of an expansive object and subject according to aesthesis itself, as mainly proposed by Katya Mandoki, and, on the other hand, by means of a restrictive object and subject according to the parameters of an authentic aesthetic experience, a theory headed by John Dewey. Methodology: To resolve this tension, a hermeneutic methodology known as the fourfold sense of being, related to Hegelian dialectic, albeit with important modifications supplied by William Desmond was used. This methodology allows a suitable way to explore and discuss different approaches in everyday aesthetics epitomized by Mandoki and Dewey, and makes possible the proposal of a third way, epitomized by G. K. Chesterton. Results: Bearing in mind the original intention of EA—according to which the everyday must be revitalized from an aesthetic perspective, as explained by Joseph Kupfer, it is argued that the two alternate positions of Mandoki and Dewey are unsatisfactory; an attempt is therefore made to respond to this through the analysis of the aesthetic approach of G. K. Chesterton. From his aesthetic reflections, it can be ascertained that to revitalize daily life, the object must be expansive and the subject, restrictive, from a certain méthodos and according to patterns that qualify an everyday aesthetic experience. All of this seeks to pave the way for subsequent investigations of EA being both expansive and restrictive. Finally, it is argued that this Chestertonian EA converges with and extends the aesthetics of design of Jane Forsey, and thus shows that design itself can be revitalized in keeping with a restrictiveexpansive approach to everyday aesthetics. Conclusion: aesthetics should be expansive every day, in that it should concern itself with any aspect of daily life, and restrictive, in that it should set certain limits on the self and its intentions with regard to the possibilities of aesthetic experience.

Referências

Arendt, H. (2006). Eichmann in Jerusalem. A report of the banality of evil. Penguin Books.

Becket, S.J. (2017). The logic of the design problem: A dialectical approach. Design Issues, 33(4), 5-16. https://doi.org/10.1162/Desi_a_00470

Berleant, A. (2005). Ideas for a social aesthetics. En A. Light & J.M. Smith (Eds.), The aesthetics of everyday life (pp. 23-38). Columbia University Press.

Betts, P. (2004). The authority of everyday objects. University of California Press.

Brady, E. (2012). Smells, tastes, and everyday aesthetics. En D. Kaplan (Ed.). The philosophy of food (pp. 69-86). University of California Press.

Bustacara, S.M. (2019). En busca de la cocina perdida. Los singulares instantes del quehacer de cocinar. Revista KEPES, 16 (19), 123-149. https://doi.org/10.17151/kepes.2019.16.19.6

Contreras, F.R. (2019). Estudio filosófico sobre la mirada estética en el diseño. Revista KEPES, 16 (19),11-38. https://doi.org/10.17151/kepes.2019.16.19.2

Chesterton, G. K. (2006). Autobiography. Ignatius press.

__________. (1986). Collected Works, Vol.1: Heretics, Orthodoxy, The Blatchford Controversies. Ignatius press.

__________. (2002). St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Francis of Assisi. Ignatius press.

__________. (1903) Robert Browning. MacMillan.

__________. (1902). Robert Louis Stevenson. Hodder and Stoughton.

__________. (1929). GKC as MC. Methuen.

__________. (1906). Charles Dickens. Dodd, Mead and Company.

__________. (1909) Tremendous Trifles. Dodd, Mead and Company.

__________. (1911) Alarms and Discursions. Dodd, Mead and Company.

Desmond, W. (1995). Being and the Between: Political Theory in the American Academy. SUNY Press.

__________. (2014). Desire, dialectic, and otherness: an essay on origins. The Lutterworth Press.

Dewey, J. (2005). Art as experience. The Berkeley Publishing Books.

Dorst, K. (2015). Frame Innovation: Create new thinking by design. MIT.

Forsey, J. (2013). The aesthetics of design. Oxford University Press.

Irvin, S. (2008). The pervasiveness of the aesthetic in ordinary experience. British Journal of aesthetics, 48(1), 29-44. https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/aym039

_________. (2009). Aesthetics of the Everyday. A Companion to Aesthetics. 2nd edition. Ed. S.Davies et al. Weley Blackwell.

Fazio, M. (2002). Chesterton, la filosofía del asombro agradecido. Acta Philosophica. Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia, 11 (1), 121-142.

Jaki, S. (1986). Chesterton: a seer of science. University of Illinois Press.

James, W. (2012). Pragmatism. Renaissance Classics.

Johnson R. V. (2017). Aestheticism, (Vol.3). Taylor and Francis Group.

Kass, L. R. (2005). El alma hambrienta. La comida y el perfeccionamiento de nuestra naturaleza. Ediciones Cristiandad.

Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, B. (1995). The aesthetics of everyday life. En S. Gablik. Conversations before the end of time (pp. 410-433). Thames and Hudson.

Ker, I. (2011). G. K. Chesterton. A biography. Oxford University Press.

Knight, M. (2004). Chesterton and evil. Fordham University Press.

Kupfer, J. (1983). Experience as art: aesthetics in everyday life. State University of New York Press.

Leddy, T. (2005). The nature of everyday aesthetics. En Light, A. & Smith, J.M. (Eds.), The aesthetics of everyday life (pp. 3-22). Columbia University Press.

Leddy, T. (2012). The extraordinary in the ordinary. Broadview Press.

Leddy, T. y Pérez-Henao, H. (2020). La experiencia del asombro: una aproximación expansiva a la estética cotidiana. Revista KEPES, 17 (22), 397-425. https://doi.org/10.17152/kepes.2020.17.22.15

Lozano Jiménez, M.Á. y Lapeña Gallego, G. (2018). La poética del diseño en la simbiosis continente-contenido. Aplicación en la tinta de vino. Revista KEPES, 15 (18), 347-372.https://doi.org/10.17151/ kepes.2018.15.18.13

Mandoki, K. (2006). Estética cotidiana y juegos de la cultura. Prosaica I. México, Siglo Veintiuno Editores.

Mandoki, K. (2007). Everyday Aesthetics: Prosaics, the Play of Culture and Social Identities. Ashgate.

Mandoki, K. (2013). El indispensable exceso de la estética. Siglo Veintiuno Editores.

Marini, G. (2021). An Introduction to Everyday Aesthetics in Education. Stud Philos Educ 40, 39– 50. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11217-020-09740-x

Melchionne, K. y Pérez-Henao, H. (2017). Definición de estética cotidiana. Revista KEPES, 14 (16), 175-183. https://doi.org/10.17151/kepes.2017.14.16.8\

Milbank, A. (2009). Chesterton and Tolkien as theologians. T & T Clark.

Novitz, D. (1992). The boundaries of art. Temple University Press.

Pérez-Henao, H. (2014). El lugar de la estética en la vida diaria: historia del concepto de estética cotidiana. Revista Kepes, 10, 227-248.

Pickstock, C. (2013). Repetition and identity. Oxford University Press.

Praz, M. (1988). El pacto con la serpiente. Paralipómenos de La carne, la muerte y el diablo en la literatura romántica. Fondo de Cultura Económica.

Principe, M. (2005). Danto and Baruchello: From art to the aesthetics of everyday. En A. Light & J.M. Smith. (Eds.) The aesthetics of everyday life (pp. 56-72). Columbia University Press.

Reyburn, D. (2008). Nomads at a crossroads (X-roads): a framework for ethical design in South Africa. Image & Text a Journal for Design, 14, 6-17.

Romero-Ramírez, M. A. (2019). Estética de lo cotidiano. Un acercamiento desde G. K. Chesterton. Universidad Sergio Arboleda. http://hdl.handle.net/11232/1309

Saito, Y. (2007). Everyday Aesthetics. Oxford University Press.

Saito, Y (2017). Aesthetics of the Familiar: Everyday Life and World-Making. Oxford University Press.

Sartwell, C. (1995). The art of living: aesthetics of the ordinary in world spiritual traditions. SUNY Press.

Smith, A., Byrne, B., Garratt, L., & Harries, B. (2021). Everyday aesthetics, locality and racialisation. Cultural Sociology, 15(1), 91-112. https://doi.org/10.1177/1749975520949422

Tolkien, J. R. R. (1988). Tree and leaf. Harper Collins.

Wilde, O. (2014). The picture of Dorian Gray. Millennium Publications.

Yarza, I. (2004). Introducción a la estética. EUNSA.