[PDF] The Aesthetics Of Care eBook

Author : Yuriko Saito
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 10,30 MB
Release : 2022-07-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 135013418X

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Building upon her previous work on everyday aesthetics, Yuriko Saito argues in this book that the aesthetic and ethical concerns are intimately connected in our everyday life. Specifically, she shows how aesthetic experience embodies a care relationship with the world and how the ethical relationship with others, whether humans, non-human creatures, environments, or artifacts, is guided by aesthetic sensibility and manifested through aesthetic means. Weaving together insights gained from philosophy, art, design, and medicine, as well as artistic and cultural practices of Japan, she illuminates the aesthetic dimensions of various forms of care in our management of everyday life. Emphasis is placed on the experience of interacting with others including objects, a departure from the prevailing mode of aesthetic inquiry that is oriented toward judgment-making from a spectator's point of view. Saito shows that when everyday activities, ranging from having a conversation and performing a care act to engaging in self-care and mending an object, are ethically grounded and aesthetically informed and guided, our experiences lead to a good life.

Author : Yuriko Saito
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 39,82 MB
Release :
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 9781350134225

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"From fussing over your personal appearance to digging in the garden, Yuriko Saito shows us how we can improve the quality of everyday life by sharpening our aesthetic sensibility. Introducing us to the unseen assumptions and ideals guiding our daily actions and routines, Saito redirects our aesthetic focus back on objects, environments, and activities and away from the fine arts that have dominated Western discussions, opening the door to Chinese and Japanese ways of thinking about aesthetics. Using examples and situations we all recognise, Saito identifies core questions lying at the heart of the subject, such as: ̈How do you make informed, well-considered aesthetic judgements? ̈Are aesthetic experiences always gained as a spectator contemplating an object? ̈Can you gain aesthetic experience when you take part in an activity? By revealing how paying aesthetic attention to day-to-day matters impacts everything from how we hang laundry or weigh up the environmental consequences of eating meat, this introduction teaches us how we can enrich our understanding of philosophy and everyday life when we expand our aesthetic experience"--

Author : Yuriko Saito
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 12,54 MB
Release : 2008-01-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 019160853X

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Everyday aesthetic experiences and concerns occupy a large part of our aesthetic life. However, because of their prevalence and mundane nature, we tend not to pay much attention to them, let alone examine their significance. Western aesthetic theories of the past few centuries also neglect everyday aesthetics because of their almost exclusive emphasis on art. In a ground-breaking new study, Yuriko Saito provides a detailed investigation into our everyday aesthetic experiences, and reveals how our everyday aesthetic tastes and judgments can exert a powerful influence on the state of the world and our quality of life. By analysing a wide range of examples from our aesthetic interactions with nature, the environment, everyday objects, and Japanese culture, Saito illustrates the complex nature of seemingly simple and innocuous aesthetic responses. She discusses the inadequacy of art-centered aesthetics, the aesthetic appreciation of the distinctive characters of objects or phenomena, responses to various manifestations of transience, and the aesthetic expression of moral values; and she examines the moral, political, existential, and environmental implications of these and other issues.

Author : Josephine Donovan
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 18,88 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Animal welfare in literature
ISBN : 9781501317231

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Introduction -- The aesthetics of modernity -- Willa Cather's aesthetic transitions -- The aesthetics of care -- Animal ethics and literary criticism -- Tolstoy's animals -- Local-color animals -- Coetzee's animals -- Metaphysical meat: "becoming men" and animal sacrifice -- The transgressive sublime, katharsis, and animal sacrifice -- Caring to hear, caring to see: art as emergence -- Conclusion

Author : Terri Wojak
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 32,75 MB
Release : 2014-05-23
Category :
ISBN : 9780997394009

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Do you own a skin care business or are you an esthetician wishing for new opportunities? Discover the business, treatments and skills needed to work in a medical setting.Estheticians have an increased value to the medical profession now more than ever. The role of the esthetician in a clinical setting be it surgical consultation, medi-spa, or general practice office is a fast-growing one. Pre- and post-operative care is oftentimes a secondary concern, despite the fact that it is absolutely crucial to the overall health and well-being of the patient/client and a requisite regimen toward realizing the results desired or promised from the medical procedure. Demand continues to grow for non-surgical services including chemical peels and microdermabrasion. In addition, physicians are offering cosmetic treatments, pre-and post-surgical treatments, and skin care products. For the esthetician and medical professional alike, this book emphasizes a working philosophy that esthetic treatment should benefit the mental and emotional well-being of the patient/client, along with healing the body. In eight well-organized sections comprising 32 chapters, Wojak discusses topics that include: The Science of Beauty Regulatory Implications to Treatment and Proper Documentation Procedures Common Skin Conditions, including but not limited to Acne, Rosacea, and Age-compromised Skin LED and IPL Therapy Understanding Ingredients and Products in Order to Make Proper Recommendations and Applications Ultrasound Microneedling and Microcurrent Advanced Esthetic Treatments, such as Dermaplaning and Chemical and Oxygen Treatments Techniques for Building Your Esthetic Business and Client Roster And more...

Author : Josephine Donovan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,31 MB
Release : 2016-06-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1501317229

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In this important new book from a distinguished scholar, Josephine Donovan develops a new aesthetics of care, which she establishes as the basis for a critical approach to the representation of animals in literature. The Aesthetics of Care begins with a guide to the relationship between ethics and aesthetics, leading to a reconceptualization of key literary critical terms such as mimesis and catharsis, before moving on to an applied section, with interpretations of the specific treatment of animals handled by a wide range of authors, including Willa Cather, Leo Tolstoy, George Sand, and J.M. Coetzee. The book closes with three concluding theoretical chapters. Clear, original, and provocative, The Aesthetics of Care introduces and makes new contributions to a number of burgeoning areas of study and debate: aesthetics and ethics, critical theory, animal ethics, and ecofeminist criticism.

Author : Andrew Light
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 23,78 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0231135025

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This collection explores the aesthetic qualities of human relationships, sports, taste, smell, food, and natural and built environments.

Author : Josephine Donovan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 36,22 MB
Release : 2016-06-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1501317210

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In this important new book from a distinguished scholar, Josephine Donovan develops a new aesthetics of care, which she establishes as the basis for a critical approach to the representation of animals in literature. The Aesthetics of Care begins with a guide to the relationship between ethics and aesthetics, leading to a reconceptualization of key literary critical terms such as mimesis and catharsis, before moving on to an applied section, with interpretations of the specific treatment of animals handled by a wide range of authors, including Willa Cather, Leo Tolstoy, George Sand, and J.M. Coetzee. The book closes with three concluding theoretical chapters. Clear, original, and provocative, The Aesthetics of Care introduces and makes new contributions to a number of burgeoning areas of study and debate: aesthetics and ethics, critical theory, animal ethics, and ecofeminist criticism.

Author : Bradford P. Keeney
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 35,40 MB
Release : 2017-02-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1462532128

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The fundamental concern of psychotherapy is change. While practitioners are constantly greeted with new strategies, techniques, programs, and interventions, this book argues that the full benefits of the therapeutic process cannot be realized without fundamental revision of the concept of change itself. Applying cybernetic thought to family therapy, Bradford P. Keeney demonstrates that conventional epistemology, in which cause and effect have a linear relationship, does not sufficiently accommodate the reciprocal nature of causation in experience. Written in an unconventional style that includes stories, case examples, and imagined dialogues between an epistemologist and a skeptical therapist, the volume presents a philosophically grounded, ecological framework for contemporary clinical practice.

Author : Scott Ferguson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,45 MB
Release : 2018-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1496201922

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Critique after modern monetary theory -- Transcending the aesthetic -- Declarations of dependence -- Medium congruentissimum -- Allegories of the aesthetic -- Becoming second nature