Aesthetics of Care: Practice in Everyday Life

Yuriko Saito's book argues that aesthetic and ethical concerns are intertwined in our everyday life, with aesthetic experience embodying a care relationship with the world and the ethical relationship with others guided by aesthetic sensibility and manifested through aesthetic means. She highlights the aesthetic dimensions of various forms of care in our management of everyday life, emphasizing the experience of interacting with others and departing from the prevailing mode of aesthetic inquiry oriented toward judgment-making from a spectators point of view.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 232 pages
Publication date: 11 August 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Yuriko Saito's book "Everyday Aesthetics: The Aesthetic and Ethical Concerns in Our Everyday Life" explores the intimate connection between aesthetic and ethical concerns in our daily lives. She argues that aesthetic experience embodies a care relationship with the world and that the ethical relationship with others is guided by aesthetic sensibility and manifested through aesthetic means. Saito draws on insights from philosophy, art, design, medicine, and artistic and cultural practices of Japan to illuminate the aesthetic dimensions of various forms of care in our management of everyday life. She emphasizes the experience of interacting with others, including objects, as 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 are ethically grounded and aesthetically informed and guided, our experiences lead to a good life.

Weight: 302g
Dimension: 138 x 216 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350134201