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Somaesthetics and Banality: A Reply to Kremer
Somaesthetics and Banality: A Reply to Kremer

Author(s): Jana Migašová
Subject(s): Aesthetics
Published by: Spoločnosť pre estetiku na Slovensku a Inštitút estetiky a umeleckej kultúry Filozofickej fakulty Prešovskej univerzity v Prešove
Keywords: Pragmatism; Somaesthetics; Banality; Everydayness; Insensitivity;Visual Art;

Summary/Abstract: This short paper is an attempt to intersect my reading of Alexander Kremer’s key ideas in his article Pragmatists on the Everyday Aesthetic Experience (2020) with my previous thoughts on banality as an aesthetic quality experienced by the modern subject in her everyday life. My contribution tries to interconnect key theoretical and artistic conceptions of banality (as discussed for example by Charles Baudelaire, Hannah Arendt, Marie Darrieussecq, Edward Keinholz) with Shusterman’s somaesthetics and subsequently to reveal another possibility of rethinking the relationship between aesthetics and ethics.

  • Issue Year: 9/2020
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 75-80
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English