Book description
Aesthetic sensibility rests on perceptual experience and characterizes
not only our experience of the arts but our experience of the world.
Sensibility and Sense offers a philosophically comprehensive account of
humans' social and cultural embeddedness encountered, recognized, and
fulfilled as an aesthetic mode of experience. Extending the range of
aesthetic experience from the stone of the earth s surface to the
celestial sphere, the book focuses on the aesthetic as a dimension of
social experience. The guiding idea of pervasive interconnectedness,
both social and environmental, leads to an aesthetic critique of the
urban environment, the environment of daily life, and of terrorism, and
has profound implications for grounding social and political values. The
aesthetic emerges as a powerful critical tool for appraising urban
culture and political practice. Aesthetic sensibility rests on
perceptual experience and characterizes not only our experience of the
arts but our experience of the world. Sensibility and Sense offers a
philosophically comprehensive account of humans' social and cultural
embeddedness encountered, recognized, and fulfilled as an aesthetic mode
of experience. Extending the range of aesthetic experience from the
stone of the earth s surface to the celestial sphere, the book focuses
on the aesthetic as a dimension of social experience. The guiding idea
of pervasive interconnectedness, both social and environmental, leads to
an aesthetic critique of the urban environment, the environment of daily
life, and of terrorism, and has profound implications for grounding
social and political values. The aesthetic emerges as a powerful
critical tool for appraising urban culture and political practice.
