{"product_id":"aesthetics-of-the-familiar-everyday-life-and-world-making-paperback","title":"Aesthetics of the Familiar: Everyday Life and World-Making - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYuriko Saito\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYuriko Saito explores the nature and significance of the aesthetic dimensions of people's everyday life. Everyday aesthetics has the recognized value of enriching one's life experiences and sharpening one's attentiveness and sensibility. Saito draws out its broader importance for how we make our worlds, environmentally, morally, as citizens and consumers. Saito urges that we have a social responsibility to encourage cultivation of aesthetic literacy and vigilance against aesthetic manipulation. Yuriko Saito argues that ultimately, everyday aesthetics can be an effective instrument for directing the humanity's collective and cumulative world-making project for the betterment of all its inhabitants. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEveryday aesthetics has been seen as a challenge to contemporary Anglo-American aesthetics discourse, which is dominated by the discussion of art and beauty. Saito responds to controversies about the nature, boundary, and status of everyday aesthetics and argues for its legitimacy. She highlights the multi-faceted aesthetic dimensions of everyday life that are not fully accounted for by the commonly-held account of defamiliarizing the familiar.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eYuriko Saito, \u003cem\u003eProfessor Emeritus, Rhode Island School of Design\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYuriko Saito, born and raised in Japan, is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Rhode Island School of Design in the United States. She has written and lectured widely on everyday aesthetics, environmental aesthetics, and Japanese aesthetics. Her \u003cem\u003eEveryday Aesthetics\u003c\/em\u003e was published by Oxford University Press in 2008. In addition to serving as an editorial consultant for a number of journals on aesthetics and environmental ethics, she works as Associate Editor of the first free-access, peer-reviewed, online journal on aesthetics, \u003cem\u003eContemporary Aesthetics\u003c\/em\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 05, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45314405138567,"sku":"9780198852919","price":63.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/V0pXP_xL_G9780198852919.webp?v=1784807413","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/aesthetics-of-the-familiar-everyday-life-and-world-making-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}