Guest Editor: María José Alcaraz León (University of Murcia)
Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics invites submissions for a special issue on failures in the exercise of aesthetic judgment. The submissions should not exceed 8,500 words, must be written in English, and prepared for
anonymous peer review. For more specific guidelines, please visit the journal’s website https://estetikajournal.org.
Confirmed contributors to the special issue are Eileen John (University of Warwick) and Elisabeth Schellekens (Uppsala Universitet).
Recent debates on the validity of Aesthetic Testimony and the centrality of the so-called Acquaintance Principle suggest that there is more to the proper exercise of aesthetic judgment than mere endorsement of allegedly correct
aesthetic judgments. For example, although it is reasonable to follow experts’ judgments in certain matters of fact, it seems less acceptable to simply endorse or adopt experts’ judgments in the aesthetic domain. That reliance on
testimony, by contrast to some other areas of judgment, is not sufficient for aesthetic judgment has encouraged scholars to focus in turn on the importance of the personal involvement and autonomy of the aesthetic agent.
This special issue will focus on phenomena related to failed exercises of aesthetic judgment. The choice of the theme is motivated by the belief that a careful analysis of failures in aesthetic judgment can reveal significant aspects
of the nature of aesthetic experience itself as well as the roles that perception, imagination, and learning have in its proper exercise.
Estetika welcomes submissions related to topics such as aesthetic snobbery, aesthetic akrasia, bad taste, inconsistency in the exercise of taste, development of taste, and aesthetic alienation. Submissions connecting these themes to the notion of aesthetic normativity are especially encouraged.
Article manuscripts should be submitted by the 15th of September 2022 at the latest via https://estetikajournal.org.
The planned publication schedule is as follows:
‒ Submission deadline: 15th of September 2022
‒ Decision and comments sent out: 31st of October 2022
‒ Final drafts due by: 15th of December 2022
‒ Publication date: end of March 2023
We would appreciate if you communicated your intention to submit a paper (ideally with a provisional title and short abstract) by 31st of May 2022. If you have any questions, please contact the editors at: https://estetikajournal.org/contact/.
Estetika is a leading journal for philosophical aesthetics in Europe. For more information on the journal, please visit the journal’s homepage: https://estetikajournal.org