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Aesthetic Life and Why It Matters THINKING ART Series Editors Noël Carroll and Jesse Prinz, CUNY Graduate Center Thinking Art fills an important gap in contemporary philosophy of art, focusing on cutting-e dge ideas and approaches to the subject. Published in the Series: Attentional Agency: A Perceptual Theory of the Arts William P. Seeley Apt Imaginings: Feelings for Fictions and Other Creatures of the Mind Jonathan Gilmore Games: Agency as Art C. Thi Nguyen Art Scents: Exploring the Aesthetics of Smell and the Olfactory Arts Larry Shiner Artistic Creation and Ethical Criticism Ted Nannicelli Dangerous Art: On Moral Criticism of Artworks James Harold Philosophy of the Moving Image: Selected Essays Noël Carroll Image in the Making: Digital Innovation and the Visual Arts Katherine Thomson- Jones Aesthetic Life and Why It Matters Dominic Mciver Lopes, Bence Nanay, and Nick Riggle Aesthetic Life and Why It Matters DOMINIC MCIVER LOPES, BENCE NANAY, AND NICK RIGGLE 1 3 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America. © Oxford University Press 2022 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. Library of Congress Cataloging-i n- Publication Data Names: Lopes, Dominic, author. | Nanay, Bence, author. | Riggle, Nick, author. Title: Aesthetic life and why it matters / Dominic McIver Lopes, Bence Nanay, and Nick Riggle. Description: New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2022] | Series: Thinking art series | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2021038499 (print) | LCCN 2021038500 (ebook) | ISBN 978–0–19–762579–8 (hbk) | ISBN 978–0–19–762581–1 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: Aesthetics. | Life. Classification: LCC BH39 .L5959 2022 (print) | LCC BH39 (ebook) | DDC 111/.85—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021038499 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021038500 DOI: 10.1093/ oso/ 9780197625798.001.0001 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed by Integrated Books International, United States of America To our teachers, John Campbell, Rob Hopkins, David Velleman, and Richard Wollheim Acknowledgments For their generous and helpful comments, our thanks to the anony- mous referees, Mary Beth Willard, Jonathan Gingerich, and an au- dience at the American Society for Aesthetics online festival during the summer of 2020. Contents Note for Instructors xi Introduction 1 1. Unlocking Experience 11 Bence Nanay 2. Aesthetic Lives: Individuality, Freedom, Community 32 Nick Riggle 3. Getting into It: Ventures in Aesthetic Life 61 Dominic McIver Lopes B reakout 87 Index 105
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