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Aesthetics of care : practice in everyday life / Yuriko Saito.

Summary:

"Building upon her previous work on everyday aesthetics, Yuriko Saito argues in this book that the aesthetic and ethical concerns are intimately connected in our everyday life. Specifically, she shows how aesthetic experience embodies a care relationship with the world and how the ethical relationship with others, whether humans, non-human creatures, environments, or artifacts, is guided by aesthetic sensibility and manifested through aesthetic means. Weaving together insights gained from philosophy, art, design, and medicine, as well as artistic and cultural practices of Japan, she illuminates the aesthetic dimensions of various forms of care in our management of everyday life. Emphasis is placed on the experience of interacting with others including objects, a departure from the prevailing mode of aesthetic inquiry that is oriented toward judgment-making from a spectator's point of view. Saito shows that when everyday activities, ranging from having a conversation and performing a care act to engaging in self-care and mending an object, are ethically grounded and aesthetically informed and guided, our experiences lead to a good life." -- Publisher's description.

Record details

ISBN: 9781350134195
ISBN: 1350134198
ISBN: 9781350134201
ISBN: 1350134201
Physical Description: viii, 219 pages : illustrations ; 22cm.
Publisher: London, UK ; Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
Copyright: ©2022.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-215) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	1 Care Ethics and Aesthetic Experience: Shared Commonality -- 2 Relationality: Aesthetic and Ethical Consequences -- 3 Expression of Care in Social Aesthetics -- 4 Care Relationship and Activities with the Material World.