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    The debate over whether bodily sensations belong to aesth... — Carmelics
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    The debate over whether bodily sensations belong to aesthetics proper is more acute in everyday aesthetics than in other aesthetic domains.

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    • 1.Daily experience is permeated by sensory experiences and bodily activities.
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    • 2.Bodily sensations arise both from passive sensory stimulation (smell, touch, taste) and from active bodily activities (running, using tools, mowing).
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    • 3.The question of whether bodily sensations belong to aesthetics proper is a pre-existing debate in the field.
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    • 1.Kant's exclusion of the agreeable (bodily pleasure) from aesthetic judgment applies equally across all aesthetic domains, not uniquely to the everyday.
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    • 2.If the bodily sensation debate is a general problem in aesthetics, its acuteness cannot be domain-specific without additional argument distinguishing everyday contexts.
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    • 1.Dewey's 'Art as Experience' grounds all genuine aesthetic experience in bodily, somatic engagement, making embodiment central to aesthetics proper universally.
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    • 2.If somatic experience is already foundational to mainstream aesthetics via pragmatist tradition, the everyday domain raises no distinctively more acute version of this debate.
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    Debates surrounding what constitutes ‘aesthetics’ in everyday aesthetics are not unique to this discourse. The nature of aesthetics has been a perennial point of contention in aesthetics at large, whether regarding fine arts, nature, popular culture or everyday objects and activities (see in particular the entries on the Concept of the Aesthetic and Dewey’s Aesthetics). However, there are at least two points of particular interest and significance regarding the notion of ‘aesthetics’ in everyday
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