Každodenná estetika | predstavenie knihy s prekladateľom Jozefom Kovalčikom

We invite you to the presentation of the book Everyday Aesthetics by Japanese-American aesthetician Yuriko Saito. The translator Jozef Kovalčik will talk about the book.

Is the transience of beauty and aging merely a negative phenomenon? When is disorder aesthetically acceptable? Why are we taught to take care of our appearance but not to judge people by their cover?

The book Everyday Aesthetics offers answers not only to these questions but also to many others that we confront daily. The excellent aesthetician Yuriko Saito takes them seriously and offers thought-provoking, unexpected, and inspiring responses.

Moderator: Magda Švecová

Yuriko Saito
She was born and raised in Japan. She served as a professor of philosophy at the Rhode Island School of Design in the USA (1981 – 2018), where she taught Japanese and everyday aesthetics, the aesthetics of nature, and topics related to ecological responsibility in art and design. She is the author of several extensive studies and books, among which the most well-received are Everyday Aesthetics (2008), Aesthetics of the Familiar: Everyday Life and World-Making (2017) – awarded by the American Society for Aesthetics – and Aesthetics of Care: Practice in Everyday Life (2022). She regularly publishes in international journals and anthologies and lectures in the USA as well as in several countries in Europe and Asia. She is the editor of the online journal Contemporary Aesthetics and also serves as an editorial advisor for The British Journal of Aesthetics.

Jozef Kovalčik
He served as a university teacher and researcher at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (2004 to 2015) and since 2011 also as a vice-rector. In 2015, he became the first director of the Arts Support Fund, where he served until June 2023. Currently, he works at the Department of Aesthetics at the Faculty of Philosophy at Comenius University in Bratislava and is a vice-rector at the Academy of Music Arts in Bratislava. His professional focus includes the history of aesthetics, the aesthetics of popular culture, and everyday aesthetics. In 2024, he published a book with Routledge titled A Philosophy of Cultural Scenes in Art and Popular Culture (with Max Ryynänen) and has also edited the publication High Art and Popular Culture, which was released by the Slovak Film Institute in the same year.

Bennet Publishing is an independent publishing house focusing on the publication of scholarly literature and popular science texts in the fields of philosophy, aesthetics, literary studies, history, sociology, economics, theory and history of various areas of art, material culture, and design.

Duration: 60 min

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