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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Aesthetics is pervasive in our lives and behavior. It’s basic it’s primal. The way we dress style our hair decorate our homes prepare our food give names to things-these are all aesthetic activities. Then there’s the novels we read the music we listen to the movies we view the video games we play the art we make and collect…. Our aesthetic predispositions also intrude into what we believe to be the domains of reason. We often rely on aesthetic cues to determine whether the information we receive from others is true false or in-between. Our susceptibility to “honest” eyes a “sincere” tone of voice “solid” facts and an “elegant” argument suggests that even the foundations of our rational knowledge are subject to aesthetic mediation. Some thinkers go further still in asserting that the structure of our “selves”- and the structure of reality itself-is based on aesthetic principles. But you know most of this already right? If you have this book in your hands you’re most (LL)