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Leading international scholars present analysis and case studies from different cultural settings, East and West, exploring aesthetic interest and experience in our daily lives at home, in workplaces, using everyday things, in our built and natural environments, and in our relationships and communities. A wide range of views and examples of everyday aesthetics are presented from western philosophical paradigms, from Confucian and Daoist aesthetics, and from the Japanese tradition. All indicate universal features of human aesthetic lives together with their cultural variations. Comparative Everyday Aesthetics is a significant contribution to a key trend in international aesthetics for thinking beyond narrow art-centered conceptions of the aesthetic. It generates global discussions about good, aesthetic, everyday living in all its various aspects. It also promotes aesthetic education for personal, social, and environmental development and presents opportunities for global collaborative projects in philosophical aesthetics.

Aesthetics --- Aesthetics. --- East and West. --- PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics. --- Civilization, Western --- Civilization, Oriental --- Occident and Orient --- Orient and Occident --- West and East --- Eastern question --- Radio broadcasting Aesthetics --- Asian influences --- Oriental influences --- Western influences --- Everyday aesthetics, nature, design, created things, aesthetic experience.

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Through the Crusades, the early modern era, and the age of imperialism, Europeans regarded the Eastern subject as requiring both 'discovery' and conquest. Conveniently, the 'Oriental' came to represent fanaticism, terrorism, moral laxity, and inscrutability, among other stereotypes. The list of German literary works that reinforced negative clichš about the East is long, but Orienting the Self argues for the presence in the Germanliterary tradition of a powerful perception of the East as the scene of desire, fantasy, and fulfillment. It follows the evolution of the Orient as a literary device and demonstrates how it was used to explore subjectivity and the possibility of wholeness.

German literature --- Orientalism in literature. --- Self in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Asian influences. --- Asia --- Foreign public opinion, German. --- Asian and Pacific Council countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Debra N. Prager. --- Eastern subject. --- Effi Briest. --- Europe's eastward gaze. --- Fortunatus. --- German literary tradition. --- German literature. --- Heinrich von Ofterdingen. --- Orient. --- Oriental. --- Parzival. --- The Magic Mountain. --- Washington and Lee University. --- literary device. --- subjectivity. --- wholeness. --- Subjectivity in literature. --- Outsiders in literature.