This article presents a review of recent thinking about consumers' aesthetic experiences.
These experiences are examined within the context of philosophical, psychological, and …

No values figure as pervasively and intimately in our lives as beauty and other aesthetic
values. They animate the arts, as well as design, fashion, food, and entertainment. They …

Wine is becoming increasingly popular in the Anglophone world and there are many books
available which describe how and where it is made. However, none address the …

The primary aim of this qualitative grounded theory study is to unpack a method to
understand the construction of aesthetic meaning, addressing the context differentiation. It is …

In analyzing oppressive systems like racism, social theorists have articulated accounts of the
dynamic interaction and mutual dependence between psychological components, such as …

There has been occasional debate amongst aesthetic theorists about whether or not the
consumption of wine can be considered an aesthetic process. This paper examines this …

Abstract “There's no disputing about taste.” That's got a nice ring to it, but it's not quite the
ring of truth. While there's definitely something right about the aphorism–there'sa reason why …

I. INTRODUCTION i. Although Kant's Critique of Judgment (1790), and especially the
Analytic of the Beautiful, has long been a favored text of aestheticians of all stripes, lately …

Hume's Aesthetic Theory examines the neglected area of the development of aesthetics in
empiricist thinking, exploring the link between the empiricist background of aesthetics in the …

Things: In Touch with the Past explores the value of artifacts that have survived from the past
and that can be said to" embody" their histories. Such genuine or" real" things afford a …