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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Thomas LeddyPublisher: Broadview Press Ltd Imprint: Broadview Press Ltd Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.391kg ISBN: 9781551114781ISBN 10: 155111478 Pages: 275 Publication Date: 28 February 2012 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsThe Extraordinary in the Ordinary is a significant contribution to the newly important field of everyday aesthetics. The book provides an excellent critical overview of work in this field to date, but more importantly breaks new ground by extending our understanding of aesthetic experience and of the properties we encounter in that experience. --Robert Stecker, Central Michigan University Thomas Leddy offers a comprehensive and compelling treatment of everyday aesthetics, discussing a wide variety of historical and contemporary sources while putting forward an interesting new theory of what it is to have an aesthetic experience. This engaging book is suitable for students, scholars, and anyone wishing to enrich their experience of everyday life. - Sherri Irvin, University of Oklahoma The Extraordinary in the Ordinary is a significant contribution to the newly important field of everyday aesthetics. The book provides an excellent critical overview of work in this field to date, but more importantly breaks new ground by extending our understanding of aesthetic experience and of the properties we encounter in that experience. - Robert Stecker, Central Michigan University Discussion of everyday aesthetics has been gaining momentum in recent years, and as well as developing his own theory of everyday aesthetics and of aesthetic experience more broadly construed, Leddy has produced an invaluable reflective consolidation of the work of major contributors to the discipline, past and present. - Christopher Dowling, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Author InformationThomas Leddy is Professor of Philosophy at San Jose State University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |