Intersections of Value
Art, Nature, and the Everyday
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 24 April 2019
- ISBN 9780198789956
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages186 pages
- Size 141x160x15 mm
- Weight 428 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Robert Stecker investigates the universal human need for aesthetic experience of the world around us. He examines three contexts where aesthetic value plays a central role: art, nature, and the everyday. He explores how the aesthetic interacts with moral, cognitive, and functional values, and considers the place of the aesthetic in a good life.
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Intersections of Value investigates the universal human need for aesthetic experience. It examines three appreciative contexts where aesthetic value plays a central role: art, nature, and the everyday. However, no important appreciative context or practice is completely centered on a single value. Hence, the book explores the way the aesthetic interacts with moral, cognitive, and functional values in these contexts. The account of aesthetic appreciation is complemented by analyses of the cognitive and ethical value of art, the connection between environmental ethics and aesthetics, and the degree to which the aesthetic value of everyday artefacts derives from their basic practical functions. Robert Stecker devotes special attention to art as an appreciative context because it is an especially rich arena where different values interact. There is an important connection between artistic value and aesthetic value, but it is a mistake to reduce the former to the latter. Rather, artistic value should be seen as complex and pluralistic, composed not only of aesthetic but also ethical, cognitive, and art-historical values.
The book covers a lot of ground, and the various stops along the way are vividly presented and carefully argued.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I: Two Kinds of Value: The Aesthetic and The Artistic
What is Aesthetic Value?
Why Artistic Value is not Aesthetic Value
Two Definitions of Artistic Value
Part II: Interacting Values in Art
Aesthetic Value, Inversion, and the Ethical Properties of Artworks
Literature as Thought
Part III: The Aesthetics of Nature and the Everyday
The Fundamental Problem of Environmental Aesthetics
Moral norms and Nature Appreciation
Artefacts: Function and Appreciation
Concluding Remarks
