The speech about ‘Everyday Aesthetics: Kazantzakis’ Japan‘ took place in 17/3/2019, at the 1st Japan Festival. It focused on the subject of everyday aesthetics in Japan, based on the theories of contemporary Japanese philosophers, such as Yuriko Saito, with plenty of examples and photos. It also contained examples from the book ‘Traveling to Japan – China’. Nikos Kazantzakis is the ...
Observing everyday aesthetics in nature actually forms an act of resistance, or is it just a comforting balm to counter the guilt we feel when we act aesthetically in an ugly and cruel world? Everyday Aesthetics sustains action We don’t like to think ourselves as the rich people on the Titanic; sipping champagne in black tie while the water rises. ...
As a branch of philosophy, Aesthetics deals with the concepts of aesthetic experience and the aesthetic properties, which relates to the works of art. But, this point of view restricts the aesthetic experience from its scope, which affects our lives on a daily basis; the things we buy, the way we decorate the spaces we choose to live in and ...