NO TENSION. DAVID HUME’S SOLUTION TO EVERYDAY AESTHETICS

• Authors: Godoy María Jesús
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This study looks at the emerging branch of everyday aesthetics from the perspective of the fracture which exists in its core, as a result of the double reading of the everyday: the first, which elevates it to the realm of the extraordinary and the second, in which it remains strictly ordinary. Our purpose here is to repair this fracture by turning to David Hume’s functionalist aesthetics, where disinterest and utility are reconciled through sympathy and the affective experience of otherness that it provides. Once transferred to the everyday sphere, sympathy facilitates understanding between these two versions, since the aesthetic appreciation of everyday objects or common activities requires, like the second version, that they remain in the practical environment and, like the first, to see something special in them, which is the possibility of one’s own or another’s well-being.

Keywords

EN

EVERYDAY AESTHETICS; HUME DAVID

• Publisher: Society for Aesthetics in Slovakia ad Institute of Aesthetics and Art Culture
• Journal: ESPES
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 11 - 24

Contributors

author

Godoy María Jesús

• University of Seville, Department of Aesthetics and History of Philosophy, Camilo José Cela s/n Seville 41018, SpainEVERYDAY AESTHETICS HUME DAVID

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5866398