The emergence of tastes / Mohan Matthen -- Cultures and values / Dominic McIver Lopes -- Beyond the either/or in aesthetic life : a new approach to aesthetic universality / Samantha Matherne -- Everyday aesthetic injustice / Bence Nanay -- Discussion : the allure of universals and how far we should resist it?
Summary:
"Aesthetic preferences and practices vary widely between individuals and between cultures. How should aesthetics proceed if we take this fact of aesthetic diversity, rather than the presumption of aesthetic universality, as our starting point? How should we theorize the cultural origins and cultural basis of aesthetic diversity? How should we think about the value and normativity of aesthetic diversity? In an effort to model what the turn toward diversity might look like in aesthetic inquiry, each author defends a different account of aesthetic diversity, and they engage in a collective dialogue about these issues"-- Provided by publisher.
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