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    It is not the case that Aesthetic appreciation of everyday life requires defamiliarization, making strange, or casting an aura onto ordinary objects and activities.

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    • 1.Yuriko Saito argues that everyday aesthetics is grounded in direct, engaged familiarity with objects—not estrangement from them.
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    • 2.The aesthetic qualities of wabi-sabi, mingei craft traditions, and Japanese mono no aware require intimate habitual attunement, not defamiliarization.
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    • 3.If defamiliarization were necessary, aesthetic appreciation would paradoxically destroy itself upon repeated exposure, collapsing into mere habituation.
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    • 1.Dewey's own account of aesthetic experience in 'Art as Experience' locates it in the consummatory quality of absorbed, skilled everyday engagement—not in making the familiar strange.
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    • 2.Pragmatist somaesthetics (Shusterman) holds that heightened bodily awareness during routine activities like martial arts or cooking constitutes genuine aesthetic experience without estrangement.
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    • 3.The defamiliarization thesis conflates the modernist avant-garde's therapeutic strategy for jaded perceivers with a universal necessary condition for all aesthetic appreciation.
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    • 1.In daily life, people are most often preoccupied by practical tasks, which mask the aesthetic potential of commonplace objects and ordinary activities.
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    • 2.Everyday experiences lack coherent structure consisting of unity, pervasive character, and a clear beginning and end.
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    • 3.According to Dewey, everyday humdrum proceeds mechanically without internal organic evolution, rendering it 'anesthetic'.
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