{"product_id":"intersections-of-value-art-nature-and-the-everyday-hardcover","title":"Intersections of Value: Art, Nature, and the Everyday - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Stecker\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIntersections of Value\u003c\/em\u003e investigates the universal human need for aesthetic experience. It examines three appreciative contexts where aesthetic value plays a central role: art, nature, and the everyday. However, no important appreciative context or practice is completely centered on a single value. Hence, the book explores the way the aesthetic interacts with moral, cognitive, and functional values in these contexts. The account of aesthetic appreciation is complemented by analyses of the cognitive and ethical value of art, the connection between environmental ethics and aesthetics, and the degree to which the aesthetic value of everyday artefacts derives from their basic practical functions. Robert Stecker devotes special attention to art as an appreciative context because it is an especially rich arena where different values interact. There is an important connection between artistic value and aesthetic value, but it is a mistake to reduce the former to the latter. Rather, \u003cbr\u003eartistic value should be seen as complex and pluralistic, composed not only of aesthetic but also ethical, cognitive, and art-historical values.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Stecker, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of Philosophy, Central Michigan University\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRobert Stecker is Professor of Philosophy at Central Michigan University. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eArtworks: Meaning, Definition, Value\u003c\/em\u003e (1996), \u003cem\u003eInterpretation and Construction: Art, Speech and the Law\u003c\/em\u003e (2003), and \u003cem\u003eAesthetics and the Philosophy of Art\u003c\/em\u003e (2010). He is currently co-editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9.3 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 18, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47376695165106,"sku":"9780198789956","price":162.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/1edea540cd4437f806cb75a696ea35cc.webp?v=1777708400","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/intersections-of-value-art-nature-and-the-everyday-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}