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Intersections of value : art, nature, and the everyday /

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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. H...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stecker, Robert, 1947- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Aesthetics.
PHILOSOPHY > Metaphysics.
Aesthetics
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The main topic and why it matters
  • Modes of intersection
  • Plan
  • A day in Stockholm
  • The Universality of the aesthetic value
  • The Universality of art
  • Artistic value and aesthestic value
  • A better explanation?
  • Artistic value
  • Aesthetic value
  • Value
  • Two kinds of value: The aesthetic and the artistic
  • What is aesthetic values:
  • Why artistic value is not aesthetic value
  • Two definitions of artistic value
  • Interacting values in art
  • Aesthetic value, inversion, and the ethical properties of artworks Literature as thought
  • The aesthetics of nature and the everyday
  • The fundamental problem of environment aesthetics
  • Moral norms and nature appreciation
  • Artifacts: Function and appreciation
  • Concluding remarks.