Organizational Aesthetics

Ole Thyssen
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Ole Thyssen: Copenhagen Business School

Chapter 1 in Aesthetic Communication, 2011, pp 1-62 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Traditionally, aesthetics has to do with ‘the beautiful’, which may be found in fine art, applied art, and nature. Traditionally, aesthetics also has to do with the enjoyment that not only art works but also actions and nature can give. The beautiful promotes life, as Kant puts it,1 while Aristotle many years earlier claimed that ‘[p]leasure completes the activity not as the inherent state does, but as an end which supervenes as the bloom of youth does on those in the flower of their age’.2 Later came ‘the ugly’. In the following, we shall limit ourselves to looking at the relationship between aesthetics and communication. This requires some explanation.

Keywords: Aesthetic Experience; Aesthetic Dimension; Aesthetic Judgement; Aesthetic Effort; Imaginary World (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230304017_1

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