Joyful - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Joyful write by Ingrid Fetell Lee. This book was released on 2018-09-04. Joyful available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Make small changes to your surroundings and create extraordinary happiness in your life with groundbreaking research from designer and TED star Ingrid Fetell Lee. Next Big Idea Club selection—chosen by Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Dan Pink, and Adam Grant as one of the "two most groundbreaking new nonfiction reads of the season!" "This book has the power to change everything! Writing with depth, wit, and insight, Ingrid Fetell Lee shares all you need to know in order to create external environments that give rise to inner joy." —Susan Cain, author of Quiet and founder of Quiet Revolution Have you ever wondered why we stop to watch the orange glow that arrives before sunset, or why we flock to see cherry blossoms bloom in spring? Is there a reason that people—regardless of gender, age, culture, or ethnicity—are mesmerized by baby animals, and can't help but smile when they see a burst of confetti or a cluster of colorful balloons? We are often made to feel that the physical world has little or no impact on our inner joy. Increasingly, experts urge us to find balance and calm by looking inward—through mindfulness or meditation—and muting the outside world. But what if the natural vibrancy of our surroundings is actually our most renewable and easily accessible source of joy? In Joyful, designer Ingrid Fetell Lee explores how the seemingly mundane spaces and objects we interact with every day have surprising and powerful effects on our mood. Drawing on insights from neuroscience and psychology, she explains why one setting makes us feel anxious or competitive, while another fosters acceptance and delight—and, most importantly, she reveals how we can harness the power of our surroundings to live fuller, healthier, and truly joyful lives.
Our Aesthetic Categories
Our Aesthetic Categories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Our Aesthetic Categories write by Sianne Ngai. This book was released on 2012. Our Aesthetic Categories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The zany, the cute, and the interesting saturate postmodern culture, dominating the look of its art and commodities as well as our ways of speaking about the ambivalent feelings these objects often inspire. In this radiant study, Ngai offers an aesthetic theory for the hypercommodified, mass-mediated, performance-driven world of late capitalism.
Aesthetics and the Good Life
Aesthetics and the Good Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aesthetics and the Good Life write by Marcia Muelder Eaton. This book was released on 1989. Aesthetics and the Good Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides a characterization of the aesthetic that enables the reader to understand what it means to view something aesthetically and how people's lives can be made aesthetically full. Influential philosophical theories of the aesthetic are explored, as well as the profound connection between aesthetic and ethical value.
The Aesthetic Experience
The Aesthetic Experience - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Aesthetic Experience write by William Davis Furry. This book was released on 1908. The Aesthetic Experience available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Theory of Beauty in the Classical Aesthetics of Japan
The Theory of Beauty in the Classical Aesthetics of Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Theory of Beauty in the Classical Aesthetics of Japan write by T. Izutsu. This book was released on 2013-03-09. The Theory of Beauty in the Classical Aesthetics of Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Japanese sense of beauty as actualized in innumerable works of art, both linguistic and non-linguistic, has often been spoken of as something strange to, and remote from, the Western taste. It is, in fact, so radically different from what in the West is ordinarily associated with aesthetic experience that it even tends to give an impression of being mysterious, enigmatic or esoteric. This state of affairs comes from the fact that there is a peculiar kind of metaphysics, based on a realization of the simultaneous semantic articulation of consciousness and the external reality, dominating the whole functional domain of the Japanese sense of beauty, without an understanding of which the so-called 'mystery' of Japanese aesthetics would remain incomprehensible. The present work primarily purports to clarify the keynotes of the artistic experiences that are typical of Japanese culture, in terms of a special philosophical structure underlying them. It consists of two main parts: (1) Preliminary Essays, in which the major philosophical ideas relating to beauty will be given a theoretical elucidation, and (2) a selection of Classical Texts representative of Japanese aesthetics in widely divergent fields of linguistic and extra-linguistic art such as the theories of waka-poetry, Noh play, the art of tea, and haiku. The second part is related to the first by way of a concrete illustration, providing as it does philological materials on which are based the philosophical considerations of the first part.
