Joseph H. Kupfer - Experience as art: aesthetics in everyday life
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SUNY Series in Philosophy Robert C. Neville, Editor
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Experience as Art
Aesthetics in Everyday Life
Joseph H. Kupfer DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY
State University of New York Press Albany
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For my students
Published by State University of New York Press, Albany
1983 State University of New York
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Kupfer, Joseph H.
Experience as art.
1. Experience. 2. Aesthetics. I. Title.
BH301.E8K86 1983 111.85 82-19258
ISBN 0-87395-692-3
ISBN 0-87395-693-1 (pbk.)
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Contents
Acknowledgments
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Introduction
1
Chapter One Educating Aesthetically
9
Chapter Two An Aesthetics of Contemporary Violence
41
Chapter Three Aesthetic Experience As Moral Education
67
Chapter Four Sexuality: Good, Deficient, and Perverse
87
Chapter Five SportThe Body Electric
111
Chapter Six The Drama of Decision-Making
141
Chapter Seven Death and the Time of Our Lives
169
Conclusion
191
Notes
195
Index
213
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Acknowledgments
I WOULD LIKE to thank my good friend and colleague, John Elrod, who encouraged me to write this book and advised me wisely in its preparation. I also benefitted from Iowa State University's generosity in providing me with a leave of absence during which a first draft was written. That first draft was substantially reworked in response to two trenchant critics: my wife, who urged me to be more concrete and colloquial; and John McDermott, whose insight into the project's potential was matched only by his patience in counselling me how to realize it.
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Introduction
The serious matter is that philosophies have denied that common experience is capable of developing from within itself methods which will secure direction for itself and will create inherent standards of judgment and value.... [They have failed] to realize the value that intelligent search could reveal and mature among the things of ordinary experience. John Dewey*
Most of us readily acknowledge that art in particular and aesthetic values in general enhance the quality of life, making it more pleasant. Harmonious color combinations of food on our plates or well-proportioned eaves on our houses are certainly a nice added touch, but few think them as important as the nourishment or shelter we derive from them. It seems fair to say that we view aesthetic detail and form in everyday life as decorative lagnappe, far from the core of our interests and our urgent concerns. In books on "aesthetics" we expect and usually find discussions about art and the artistic properties of commonplace things like food combinations and housing architecture. They rarely address moral, social, or personal concerns. Appropriately enough, aesthetics has come to be regarded as the pretty accessory to the more momentous normative disciplines, not to be taken too seriously by the majority of philosophers.
In what follows, I depart from this common understanding, arguing that aesthetic values permeate everyday life and ought not to be thought of as the exclusive province of museums and concert halls. Now one way to show this is to emphasize how "artful" everyday objects such as clothing, furniture, utensils, apples, and sunsets may be. This is to demonstrate how much like works of art working artifacts or natural objects in our environment are. But while it's a
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