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Intersections of value : art, nature, and the everyday / Robert Stecker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stecker, Robert, 1947- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aesthetics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 174 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Art, nature, and the everyday
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Previously issued in print: 2019.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-250732-X
- 0-19-187627-5
- 0-19-250731-1
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