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Renewing Aesthetics: From Art to Everyday Life
Description of the project
The main aims of the project are to review the core concepts and methods of philosophical aesthetics and to expand its scope towards areas that are neglected by traditional or analytic approaches, in order to respond to challenges from both artistic and social practices that have undergone fundamental changes. This project is motivated by explorations into areas that have recently developed as the “everyday aesthetics” movement, and will seek to explore new application for a practical or “action-oriented” aesthetics for everyday life. Yet it will not drop out art as an area of interest for aesthetics. Instead, concepts of art, the aesthetic, aesthetic experience, aesthetic knowing, and aesthetic choice, as well as the related practices within the artworld or the everyday life, will be systematically examined through a comparative approach that could disclose both their common nature and specific differences. This theoretical foundation will allow for a more thorough investigation of applications for aesthetics within a broad scope of activity areas (aesthetic social situations and techniques of the self: body and fashion; arts management and policy) in order to test the benefits, efficacy of their use. Thus, from a methodological viewpoint, the project will be accomplished in a multi-stage approach, in the tradition of practical philosophy that is by firstly investigating problems and concepts that are prior to its interdisciplinary and hybridized applications. |
