The aesthetics of everyday life, originally developed by Henri Lefebvre and other modernist theorists, is an extension of traditional aesthetics, usually confined to works of art. It is not limited to the study of humble objects but is rather concerned with all of the undeniably aesthetic experiences that arise when one contemplates objects or performs acts that are outside the traditional realm of aesthetics. It is concerned with the nature of the relationship between subject and object.

One significant aspect of everyday aesthetics is environmental aesthetics, whether constructed, as a building, or manipulated, as a landscape. Others, also discussed in the book, include sport, weather, smell and taste, and food.

I. Theorizing the Aesthetics of the Everyday
1. The Nature of Everyday Aesthetics, by Tom Leddy
2. Ideas for a Social Aesthetic, by Arnold Berleant
3. On the Aesthetics of the Everyday: Familiarity, Strangeness, and the Meaning of Place, by Arto Haapala
4. Danto and Baruchello: From Art to the Aesthetics of the Everyday, by Michael A. Principe
II. Appreciating the Everyday Environment
5. Building and the Naturally Unplanned, by Pauline von Bonsdorff
6. What is the Correct Curriculum for Landscape?, by Allen Carlson
7. Wim Wenders's Everyday Aesthetics, by Andrew Light
III. Finding the Everday Aesthetic
8. Sport Viewed Aesthetically, and Even as Art?, by Wolfgang Welsch
9. The Aesthetics of Weather, by Yuriko Saito
10. Sniffing and Savoring: The Aesthetics of Smells and Tastes, by Emily Brady
11. How Can Food Be Art?, by Glenn Kuehn