Recent Debates in Everyday Aesthetics

The Definition of Everyday Aesthetics.  

Melchionne, Kevin. "The Definition of Everyday Aesthetics"  Contemporary Aesthetics  Vol. 11, Jan. 7, 2013.  I reply to Melchionne in this blog. 

Naukkarinen, Ossi.  "What is 'Everyday' in Everyday Aesthetics"  Contemporary Aesthetics  Vol. 11, Sept. 16, 2013.   I reply to Naukkarinen in my blog   Naukkarinen then replied to that blog entry, his reply also to be found on this blog.  

Responses to my book The Extraordinary in the Ordinary.  There have been two reviews of the book and then some further discussions.

Dowling, Christopher.  "Thomas Leddy:  The Extraordinary in the Ordinary:  The Aesthetics of Everyday Life."  Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. May 19, 2012.  I reply to Dowling in my blog.

Forsey, Jane. "The Promise, the Challenge, of Everyday Aesthetics," Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico, 7, no. 1 (2014): 5-2. Available at: <http://fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/14608/13652>. Date accessed: 21 Jun. 2014. I reply here.


Melchionne, Kevin.   "Leddy, Thomas.  The Extraordinary in the Ordinary:  The Aesthetics of Everyday Life."  Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.  71 (3):296-298 (2013).

-   "The Point of Everyday Aesthetics." Contemporary Aesthetics 12 (2014) here

Poullaka, Kalle.  "Dewey and Everyday Aesthetics - A New Look,"  Contemporary Aesthetics 12 (2014)  here

Ratiu, Dan Eugen.  "Remapping the Realm of Aesthetics: On Recent Controversies about the Aesthetic and Aesthetic Experience in Everyday Life" Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics  Issue 1,  Jan 1013, to be found here.  

Discussions of Everyday Aesthetics Issues 

Freeland, Cynthia.  review  Jane Forsey, The Aesthetics of Design (Oxford U. Press, 2013).  Freeland provides an excellent overview of some of the issues in the context of discussing Forsey's book.

Leddy, Thomas.  

Di Stefano, Elisabetta. "Estetica e oggetti quotidiani ?".

“ Everyday Aesthetics and Photography.” Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico, 7, no. 1 (2014): 45-62. Available at: <http://fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/14610 

Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico,   7 no. 1, (2114): 119-128.  Available at: <http://www.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/14615/13638>. Date accessed: 21 Jun. 2014.  [You can translate this by going to Google translation] Iannilli, Gioia Laura. "Inter-facing Everydayness From Distance to Use, Through the Cartographic Paradigm," Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico, 7 no. 1, (2114):