Aesthetic experiences with others

An enactive account

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21750873
AutoresHarry Drummond (0000-0002-4225-9278, University of Liverpool, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Fecha de publicación2024-07-26
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1568-7759 • E-ISSN: 1572-8676
EditorialSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s11097-024-10015-w
OpenAlexW4401010903
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas35

We can look at paintings, listen to music, dance, play instruments, and watch movies, on our own almost anytime, anywhere. That is, we have effortless, on-demand access to an abundance of private aesthetic experiences. Why, then, do we seek out aesthetic experiences together? Indeed, it is not controversial to claim that listening to music, dancing, and watching films are activities that we do together more so than we do on our own. While the significance of interpersonal aesthetic experiences, and what explains that significance, is not uncharted territory, I claim that more precision regarding the kinds of relations and interactions that modulate and enable different kinds of interpersonal aesthetic experiences is warranted than is offered in extant literature. As such, an enactive approach that not only foregrounds embodiment and intersubjectivity in cognition, but duly explains how variations in them cause variations in cognition, is paramount to my explanation. Here, then, I marshal three ‘varieties’ of interpersonal aesthetic experience that I term aggregative , synchronised , and shared aesthetic experiences. In doing so, I explain what makes them particularly worthwhile, while introducing terminological and explanatory clarity to the literature as a unifying base from which future research can unfold

Autopoiesis · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Enactivism · Epistemology · Metaphysics · Neurophenomenology · Philosophy of mind · Psychoanalysis · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Representations and Identity