aShusterman and the Aesthetic Experience Oh, how the concept of analytical aesthetics has been construed, confused, consumed, massaged, reworked, wrestled, swallowed and digested and spat out in so many different forms of philosophical vomit (for lack of a better word). Can it be possible that the fruits of this immeasurable labor are unclear, after so many decades of toil, if present at all? Modernity is responsible for the coining of the term aesthetic. The word …showed first 75 words of 1849 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1849 total…art can be enjoyed. An idealistic "Artopia" of simple sensory pleasure could be extinguished in the suffocation of technicality. Could this technicality also be extinguishing a core reason behind humankind's artmaking ? Possibly, yet I feel that if one is genuinely afraid of such consequence, one isn't forced to read the theories of Shusterman, just as one is not forced to take this class in the first place. I choose to be exited by Shusterman's efforts.