Engagement and embodiment : for Arnold Berleant on his ninetieth birthday

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2022

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pages 40-46

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POPULAR INQUIRY: The Journal of the Aesthetics of Kitsch, Camp and Mass Culture, 6(2022):1

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Among the many contributions he has made to contemporary aesthetics, Arnold Berleant invites us to question the assumptions about aesthetic experience and aesthetic value held dear by adherents to 18th century aesthetic theory in the face of challenges contemporary artists continue to pose by making artworks that test those assumptions. With his concept of aesthetic engagement, Berleant encourages us to embrace a form of life that thrills to the ecstasies of artworks and everyday existence and to glory in our embodiment of “the flesh of the world.”

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Engagement, Embodiment, Aesthetic Field, Aesthetic Experience, Aesthetic Theory, Flesh

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