Pub Date : 2022-02-17DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197625798.003.0003
Nick Riggle
We can start to understand why aesthetic life matters by imagining life without aesthetic value. What would we miss out on? A lot of pleasure and excitement, for sure, but that’s not nearly everything. A life without aesthetic value would be a life without an important part of ourselves and without a unique and profound source of community. Aesthetic life matters because it allows us to freely explore and cultivate our individuality in ways that create and sustain special forms of community. This chapter makes this point through a detailed analogy with food. Food is what is worthy of eating, where eating is a complex social practice that sustains health, creativity, and social life. Likewise, aesthetic value is what is worthy of aesthetic valuing, where the practice of aesthetic valuing is oriented around goods of freedom, individuality, and community.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-17DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197625798.003.0002
Bence Nanay
Experiences don’t just happen to us. An important aspect of understanding aesthetic experience is to understand what we do when we are trying to have it. Trying to have an aesthetic experience is often a mental action. And we learn from an early age how to perform these actions and which action is to be performed under what circumstances. This is an important reason why aesthetic experiences vary wildly depending on our personal and cultural background. It also explains an important sense in which aesthetic phenomena matter to us personally. And it also captures an important aspect of how aesthetic endeavors can serve as a social glue.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-17DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197625798.003.0004
D. Lopes
The network theory of aesthetic value predicts that aesthetic value practices are plural. Values in plural practices differ yet are equally valid, incommensurable, noncompeting, and often to some degree mutually comprehensible. As a result, aesthetic value practices accommodate outsiders’ respect as well as insiders’ engagement. They are therefore well suited to meet a human need to come to terms with differences in value that do not threaten conflict. They invite benign exploration of value diversity; they invite ventures in aesthetic life. Although inegalitarian social forces undercut some of the promise of ventures in aesthetic life, we have tools to resist these forces.
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Three accounts of why aesthetic life matters—the achievement account, the individuality-in-community account, and the venture account—have different implications. Some of their implications touch on hot-button issues. Aesthetic life involves disagreement. What is its point? Many believe that aesthetic reactions are subjective. In what sense is that true, if it is true? Can we escape ethnocentrism in our thinking about aesthetic engagement? Why do aesthetic practices change as rapidly as they do? Are they fads? Is rapid change a problem? How should we respond to the ideological function of aesthetic life, especially in discriminatory and damaging ideals of bodily beauty?
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