Rethinking Aesthetics The Role of Body in Design

Rethinking Aesthetics is the first book to bring together prominent voices in the fields of architecture, philosophy, aesthetics, and cognitive sciences to radically rethink the relationship between body and design. These essays argue that aesthetic experiences can be nurtured at any moment in everyday life, thanks to recent discoveries by researchers in neuroscience, phenomenology, somatics, and analytic philosophy of the mind, who have made the correlations between aesthetic cognition, the human body, and everyday life much clearer. The essays, by Yuriko Saito, Juhani Pallasmaa, and Richard Shusterman, among others, range from an integrated mind-body approach to chair design, to Zen Buddhist notions of mindfulness, to theoretical accounts of existential relationships with buildings, to present a full spectrum of possible inquiries. By placing the body in the center of design, Rethinking Aesthetics opens new directions for rethinking the limits of both essentialism and skepticism. Additional ISBNs0415534747, 0415534755, 0203753445, 9780415534741, 9780415534758, 9780203753446, 1135014000, 1135014019, 1299280250, 1135013993, 9781135014001, 9781135014018, 9781299280250, 9781135013998Rethinking Aesthetics: The Role of Body in Design 1st Edition and published by Routledge. ISBNs for Rethinking Aesthetics are 9781135014001, 1135014000 and the print ISBNs are 9780415534758, 0415534755. Additional ISBNs include 0415534747, 0415534755, 0203753445, 9780415534741, 9780415534758, 9780203753446, 1135014000, 1135014019, 1299280250, 1135013993, 9781135014001, 9781135014018, 9781299280250, 9781135013998.