The Aesthetics of Dress /

This book explores the relationships between how the body appears and feels in everyday life through aesthetics. The recent shift away from Kantian aesthetics towards a more enacted route places at its core the realization that the world is experienced as possibilities for action, and critical to th...

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Main Authors: King, Ian
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink Online service
Published: Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
Publisher Address: Cham :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy,
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54322-2
Summary: This book explores the relationships between how the body appears and feels in everyday life through aesthetics. The recent shift away from Kantian aesthetics towards a more enacted route places at its core the realization that the world is experienced as possibilities for action, and critical to this understanding is how the body s movement generates multiple pre-linguistic experiences and meaning. This route therefore realizes the importance of the body s role in working in conjunction with cognition in generating these experiences. Nevertheless, this attention has predominantly focused on
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (XIII, 77 pages): illustrations.
ISBN: 9783319543222
Index Number: BH1
CLC: B83
Contents: Introduction -- Aesthetics and the Everyday -- The Aesthetics of Dress -- Discussion.