<P>In this volume,&nbsp;a team of internationally respected contributors&nbsp;theorize the&nbsp;concept of aesthetic experience and its value. Exposing and expanding our&nbsp;restricted cultural and intellectual presuppositions of what constitutes aesthetic experience, the book aims to re-explore and affirm the place of aesthetic experience--in its evaluative, phenomenological and transformational sense--not only in relation to art and artists but to our inner and spiritual lives. </P>