ABSTRACT
This chapter explores intuition with respect to the representation of an aesthetics of the everyday, with strong social overtones, in the work of the German filmmaker Wim Wenders. Aesthetics, as a philosophical discipline, is aimed at understanding the nature of beauty, much the same way that ethics aims at an understanding of the right and the good. Much work in aesthetics does indeed focus on the products of the traditional disciplines, especially the plastic arts, such as painting and sculpture. An aesthetics of everyday life may be concerned with a broad range of phenomena, from the appreciation of ordinary objects, weather, food, or particular activities like walking to broader arenas such as the aesthetics of built spaces, including parks, skyscrapers, and cities. Much work in contemporary philosophy of technology is concerned with accounts of how different kinds of technology create different forms of social relations.
