Aesthetic value and artistic judgment represent a rich intersection of philosophy, psychology, and the arts. These fields investigate how aesthetic qualities such as beauty, sublimity, and ...

An original literary scholar, Sianne Ngai has centered her work on unspooling the social and political histories that form the aesthetic judgments of novels, movies and photographs, as well as the ...

Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory, Vol. 65, No. 3 (156) (September 2018), pp. 76-101 (26 pages) Hannah Arendt discovers a theory of politics in Immanuel Kant’s aesthetic treatise, the ...

Aesthetic judgments influence our emotions and preferences (liking). Aesthetics is narrowly defined as the study of beauty. Beautiful music or artwork produces a pleasant feeling. The following ...

Aesthetic emotions play a crucial role in the processing and enjoyment of art. Individual aesthetic emotions are about various types of aesthetic objects, such as nature, design, fashion, physical ...

Nathalie Olah’s exploration of the ethics of tastefulness dissects the class-bounded nature of most social and cultural mores. An illustration of interior design, 1951. The concept of “taste” is ...

The course provides an introductory survey of key topics and views in aesthetics: the study of theories of art and aesthetic experience. Topics include: historically prominent theories of the nature ...