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Wherever on the globe anyone sets foot, they find people immersed in matters aesthetic. In UNESCO's definition, there can be no culture that lacks an aesthetic life. Aesthetic life is in this sense a cultural universal. At the same time, aesthetic engagement has a geography. While all cultures have an aesthetic, no single aesthetic belongs to all cultures. The rules of aesthetic engagement vary by culture.
How should aesthetics proceed if we take this fact of aesthetic diversity, rather than the presumption of aesthetic universality as our starting point? How should we theorize the cultural origins and cultural basis of aesthetic diversity? How should we think about the value and normativity of aesthetic diversity? To model what the turn toward diversity might look like in aesthetic inquiry, the four authors of this book each defend a different account of aesthetic diversity, and together they engage in a collective dialogue about these issues. The Geography of Taste will interest students in aesthetics courses as well as others interested in novel, global approaches to aesthetics.
The Geography of Taste
by Lopes, Dominic McIver; Matherne, Samantha; Matthen, Mohan; Nanay, BenceFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2024-02-20
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Author Biography
Dominic McIver Lopes is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and University Killam Professor at the University of British Columbia.
Samantha Matherne is the Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of the Humanities in the Philosophy Department at Harvard University.
Mohan Matthen is Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, where he was Canada Research Chair in Philosophy and Perception from 2006 to 2023.
Bence Nanay is Professor of Philosophy and BOF Research Professor at the University of Antwerp and the Director of European Network for Sensory Research.
Samantha Matherne is the Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of the Humanities in the Philosophy Department at Harvard University.
Mohan Matthen is Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, where he was Canada Research Chair in Philosophy and Perception from 2006 to 2023.
Bence Nanay is Professor of Philosophy and BOF Research Professor at the University of Antwerp and the Director of European Network for Sensory Research.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The Emergence of Tastes, Mohan Matthen
2. Cultures and Values, Dominic McIver Lopes
3.Beyond the Either/Or in Aesthetic Life: A New Approach to Aesthetic Universality, Samantha Matherne
4. Everyday Aesthetic Injustice, Bence Nanay
Discussion: The Allure of Universals and How Far We Should Resist It?
Index
1. The Emergence of Tastes, Mohan Matthen
2. Cultures and Values, Dominic McIver Lopes
3.Beyond the Either/Or in Aesthetic Life: A New Approach to Aesthetic Universality, Samantha Matherne
4. Everyday Aesthetic Injustice, Bence Nanay
Discussion: The Allure of Universals and How Far We Should Resist It?
Index
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