Intersections of Value: Art Nature and the Everyday

Intersections of Value investigates the universal human need for aesthetic experience. It examines three appreciative contexts where aesthetic value plays a central role: art, nature, and the everyday. However, no important appreciative context or practice is completely centered on a single value. Hence, the book explores the way the aesthetic interacts with moral, cognitive, and functional values in these contexts. The account of aesthetic appreciation is complemented by analyses of the cognitive and ethical value of art, the connection between environmental ethics and aesthetics, and the degree to which the aesthetic value of everyday artefacts derives from their basic practical functions. Robert Stecker devotes special attention to art as an appreciative context because it is an especially rich arena where different values interact. There is an important connection between artistic value and aesthetic value, but it is a mistake to reduce the former to the latter. Rather, artistic value should be seen as complex and pluralistic, composed not only of aesthetic but also ethical, cognitive, and art-historical values. Additional ISBNs0198789955, 0192507311, 9780198789956, 9780192507310Intersections of Value: Art, Nature, and the Everyday is written by Robert Stecker and published by OUP Oxford. ISBNs for Intersections of Value are 9780192507327, 019250732X and the print ISBNs are 9780198789956, 0198789955. Additional ISBNs include 0198789955, 0192507311, 9780198789956, 9780192507310.