This article offers first an outline of the structure of philosophical aesthetics as a whole, and then a selective sketch of the development of Anglo-American aesthetics over the past fifty years, focusing on five central topics:
By an aesthetic issue I mean an issue in the philosophy of the arts and of aesthetic experience (including:
What emerges is a conflictual aesthetics that does not conform with traditional approaches to the field and that activates the political potential of artistic practice.
Oliver Marchart is a political theorist and philosopher.
He is currently professor of political theory at the University of Vienna.
As part of the discussion, difficulty faced by employees with regards to aesthetics will also be consider with a final conclusion on the need to consider certain skill demands.
The concept of skills has been complex, elusive and hard to define (Grugulis 2007).
Skill a century ago was associated with manual exercise of a given trade or occupation.
