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The article considers the expediency of using the ideas of contemporary practical aesthetics in the political action necessary for solving the political and ecological crisis of our time. It is postulated that overcoming the exploitative attitude in human relations with the world is impossible without transforming our desires, aesthetic feelings and habits, which determine everyday actions more directly than reason or duty. As an alternative to the model of aesthetic experience accompanying the logic of consumption, it is proposed to actualise the deliberative component inherent in aesthetics itself, as well as to use the groundwork of Yuriko Saito’s “aesthetics of care”, which considers openness and compliance to life as the central aesthetic value. It is concluded that the ideas of contemporary practical aesthetics should form the basis of the grassroots political movement needed to effectively address the problems of our time.
V. Rybakov (Wed,) studied this question.