Applying Aesthetics to Everyday Life

Applying Aesthetics to Everyday Life surveys current debates in the field of everyday aesthetics, examining its history, methodology and intersections with cognate research areas. Lisa Giombini and Adrián Kvokacka bring together an international team of renowned scholars who are shaping the present and future of the discipline. They demonstrate how the historical origins of everyday aesthetics emerges across the history of Western aesthetic thought, from Renaissance thinkers to the modern German philosophers Baumgarten, Kant and Heidegger. Chapters shed light on the field's methodological underpinnings, tracing its theoretical foundations back to epistemology and ethics and assess the potential of everyday aesthetics as a theoretical tool. They reveal its interdisciplinary nature and how it assists various fields of inquiry, including environmental and urban aesthetics, conservation ethics and the philosophy of art. Through fresh explorations of its origins, background and contemporary developments, this collection advances a new definition of everyday aesthetics and provides a cutting edge reflection on the world we inhabit today.

Lisa Giombini is Research Fellow in Aesthetics at Roma Tre University, Italy.
Adrián Kvokacka is Associate Professor of Aesthetics at Presov University, Slovakia.

List of Figures
Introduction: Rethinking Roots, Imagining Futures, Lisa Giombini (Roma Tre University, Italy) and Adrián Kvokacka (Presov University, Slovakia)
Part I: Foundations
1. Prosaics: Theory of Everyday Sensitivity as Baumgarten's Aesthetica Practica, Katya Mandoki (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México)
2. Kant and the Place of Everyday Aesthetics in the Critique of Judgement, Adrián Kvokacka (Presov University, Slovakia)
3. Heidegger's 'The Origin of the Work of Art' and the Extra-ordinary in Everyday Aesthetics, Thomas Leddy (San Jose State University, USA)
4. The Aesthetics of Popular Culture as Everyday Aesthetics: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Max Ryynänen (Aalto University, Finland)
5. Whose Everyday? On the Cultural Aesthetics of Everyday Life, Arnold Berleant (Long Island University, USA)
6. Can we Design Familiarity?, Gioia Laura Iannilli (Alma Mater University of Bologna, Italy)
7. Predictability, Improvisation and the Everyday, Adam Andrzejewski (Warsaw University, Poland)
Part II: Applications
8. Rethinking the Urban Sublime, Sanna Lehtinen (Aalto University, Finland), Brit Strandhagen (NTNU, Norway) and Matti Tainio (University of Lapland, Finland)
9. The Use and Usefulness of Unused Spaces: Neglected urban environment in changing perspectives, Zoltán György Somhegyi (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church, Hungary)
10. Tornadoes and the Poietics of Nature, Madalina Diaconu
11. Stones - Our Distant Cousins, Wolfgang Welsch (Universität Jena, Germany)
12. Aesthetics of Behaviour, Elisabetta Di Stefano (University of Palermo, Italy)
13. Aesthetics of Doing House Chores: Working in and with the World, Yuriko Saito (Rhode Island School of Design, USA)
14. Care in Conservation Ethics, Lisa Giombini (Roma Tre University, Italy)
Index