The Aesthetics of Everyday Life

Edited by Andrew Light and Jonathan M. Smith

Paper, 240 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13503-0
$26.50 / £15.50

April, 2005
Cloth, 240 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13502-3
$73.00 / £43.00

I. Theorizing the Aesthetics of the Everyday

1. The Nature of Everyday Aesthetics, by Tom Leddy

2. Ideas for a Social Aesthetic, by Arnold Berleant

3. On the Aesthetics of the Everyday: Familiarity, Strangeness, and the Meaning of Place, by Arto Haapala

4. Danto and Baruchello: From Art to the Aesthetics of the Everyday, by Michael A. Principe

II. Appreciating the Everyday Environment

5. Building and the Naturally Unplanned, by Pauline von Bonsdorff

6. What is the Correct Curriculum for Landscape?, by Allen Carlson

7. Wim Wenders's Everyday Aesthetics, by Andrew Light

III. Finding the Everday Aesthetic

8. Sport Viewed Aesthetically, and Even as Art?, by Wolfgang Welsch

9. The Aesthetics of Weather, by Yuriko Saito

10. Sniffing and Savoring: The Aesthetics of Smells and Tastes, by Emily Brady

11. How Can Food Be Art?, by Glenn Kuehn

About the Author

Andrew Light is assistant professor of environmental philosophy, director of the Environmental Conservation program, and codirector of the Applied Philosophy Group at New York University. He is the author of Reel Arguments: Film, Philosophy, and Social Criticism and is the editor or coeditor of fifteen books on philosophy and environmental studies. He lives in New York City. Jonathan M. Smith is professor of geography at Texas A&M and is the coeditor of Re-Reading Cultural Geography; Worldview Flux: Perplexed Values Among Postmodern Peoples; American Space/American Place: Geographies of the Contemporary United States; and the journal Philosophy and Geography. He lives in Bryan, Texas.

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