ABSTRACT

A body, by its simple force, and in its act, is powerful enough to alter the nature of things more profoundly than ever the mind in its speculations and dreams was able to do!2

Embodied Appreciation

Aesthetic appreciation has typically been described as an act of consciousness, a certain, distinctive sort of consciousness. Such an account is not only inadequate but distorted, for there is no consciousness without body, no disembodied consciousness. If an aesthetic is to be non-dualistic, it must proceed differently.