• The Sensuous and the Sensual in Aesthetics

    Author(s):
    Arnold Berleant (see profile)
    Date:
    1964
    Subject(s):
    Aesthetics
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    sense perception, sensuous
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/3vg2-fz92
    Abstract:
    The sensuousness of perception leads us to recognize the role of the senses in aesthetic experience. Aesthetics has traditionally admitted the sensuous through sight and hearing but has excluded the contact senses of taste, smell, and especially touch. These contact senses challenge the place in traditional aesthetics of distance and disinterestedness by overcoming their depersonalizing effect and introducing the sensual through direct physical involvement. These senses, however, do enter into the arts and thus are aesthetically important. The distinction that traditional theory maintains between the sensuous experience of the distant senses and the sensual appeal of the contact senses is untenable. With the aesthetic relevance of sensual experience comes an acknowledgment of tactility, the body, and the erotic as legitimate parts of aesthetic experience at its fullest and richest.
    Notes:
    “The Sensuous and the Sensual in Aesthetics,” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, XXIII, 2 (Winter l964), l85 l92.
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    Pub. Date:
    1964
    Journal:
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
    Volume:
    XXIII
    Issue:
    2
    Page Range:
    185 - 192
    ISSN:
    0021-8529
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    2 years ago
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    Attribution-NonCommercial
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