Aesthetics and Nature: The Appreciation of Natural Beauty and the Environment: Bloomsbury Aesthetics
Autor Dr Glenn Parsonsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 noi 2023
Outlining five major approaches to understanding the aesthetic value of nature, this second edition explores the aesthetic appreciation of nature as it occurs in wilderness, in gardens, and in the context of appreciating environmental art. Now updated to cover recent developments in the field, it includes:
· A new chapter on the sublime, the picturesque, and the beautiful
· Expanded discussion of empirical and evolutionary accounts of nature appreciation, as well as the appreciation of the environment in non-Western cultures
· A new chapter on the aesthetic appreciation of animals
· An in-depth analysis of the appreciation of nature through cinema and photography
· Discussion of the relation between environmental appreciation and climate change
Combining a clear and engaging style with a sophisticated treatment of a fascinating subject, Aesthetics and Nature explores the aesthetic dimension of humanity's relationship with our physical surroundings. This a must-read for anyone who cares about nature and the future of our environment.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781350121591
ISBN-10: 1350121592
Pagini: 400
Ilustrații: 15 bw images
Dimensiuni: 138 x 214 x 34 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:2. Auflage
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Bloomsbury Aesthetics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1350121592
Pagini: 400
Ilustrații: 15 bw images
Dimensiuni: 138 x 214 x 34 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:2. Auflage
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Bloomsbury Aesthetics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Cuprins
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Aesthetics and Nature from an Analytic Perspective
1. The Conceptual Background: Nature
1.1 The end of Nature?
1.2 Is Nature a Useful concept?
1.3 Some Alternatives: Wilderness, Landscape, Environment
2. The Conceptual Background: Beauty and Aesthetic Value
2.1 Beauty
2.2 The Sublime, the Picturesque and the Aesthetic
2.3 Two Questions About Aesthetic Value
2.4 Two Accounts of Aesthetic Value
3. Imagination, Belief and Aesthetic Judgement
3.1 From Ethics to Ice Cream
3.2 Thought Contents
3.3 Anything goes? A Relativist Approach
3.4 Objections to the Relativist Approach
4. Formalism
4.1 Traditional Formalism
4.2 Strengths of Formalism
4.3 Quantification and Formalism in Empirical Landscape Assessment
4.4 Objections to Traditional Formalism
4.5 Zangwill's Formalism
5. Science and the Aesthetics of Nature
5.1 Science and the nature critic
5.2 Another Turn in the Taste for Landscape? Positive Aesthetics
5.3 Objections to the science-based approach
5.4 The Fusion Problem
6. Pluralism
6.1 A Modest Pluralism
6.2 Robust Pluralism
6.3 Problems for Robust Pluralism (two arguments redux)
6.4 Modest Pluralism Again
7. Nature and the Aesthetics of Engagement
7.1 The Challenge to Disinterestedness
7.2 An Engaged Aesthetics of Nature
7.3 Problems for Berleant's Engaged Aesthetic
7.4 Engagement, Unity, and the Aesthetic
8. Animals
8.1 Appreciating Animals
8.2 Normative Questions
8.3 Are there ugly species?
9. Aesthetic Issues in Environmental Protection, Restoration and Rewilding
9.1 Aesthetic Protection in Theory and Practice
9.2 Two Issues for Aesthetic Protection
9.3 Aesthetic Protection, Ethics, and the Problem of Taste
9.4 Biodiversity and the Politics of Aesthetic Protection
9.5 Aesthetic Remediation, Restoration and Rewilding
10. The Sublime, the Picturesque, and the Beautiful
10.1 Rise and Fall of the Sublime
10.2 Contemporary Theories of the Sublime
10.3 Reappraising the Picturesque
10.4 Beauty, Taste and Love of Place
11. Nature in the Garden
11.1 The Garden as Nature
11.2 The Garden as Art
11.3 Is Nature Essential to the Garden?
11.4 Appreciating Gardens: Interaction, Achievement, Atmosphere
12. Art In Nature
12.1 The Ethics of Environmental Art: Four Questions
12.2 Is Environmental Art an Aesthetic Affront to Nature?
12.3 Is the Effrontery Charge Justified?
12.4 Is the Effrontery Charge Coherent?
13. Nature Through Art: Mediated Appreciation
13.1 Mediated Appreciation
13.2 Two Problems for Mediated Appreciation
13.3 Beyond Accuracy: Generative Mediation
14. Epilogue: Aesthetics in the Anthropocene? Philosophical and Empirical Challenges
Bibliography
Index
Introduction: Aesthetics and Nature from an Analytic Perspective
1. The Conceptual Background: Nature
1.1 The end of Nature?
1.2 Is Nature a Useful concept?
1.3 Some Alternatives: Wilderness, Landscape, Environment
2. The Conceptual Background: Beauty and Aesthetic Value
2.1 Beauty
2.2 The Sublime, the Picturesque and the Aesthetic
2.3 Two Questions About Aesthetic Value
2.4 Two Accounts of Aesthetic Value
3. Imagination, Belief and Aesthetic Judgement
3.1 From Ethics to Ice Cream
3.2 Thought Contents
3.3 Anything goes? A Relativist Approach
3.4 Objections to the Relativist Approach
4. Formalism
4.1 Traditional Formalism
4.2 Strengths of Formalism
4.3 Quantification and Formalism in Empirical Landscape Assessment
4.4 Objections to Traditional Formalism
4.5 Zangwill's Formalism
5. Science and the Aesthetics of Nature
5.1 Science and the nature critic
5.2 Another Turn in the Taste for Landscape? Positive Aesthetics
5.3 Objections to the science-based approach
5.4 The Fusion Problem
6. Pluralism
6.1 A Modest Pluralism
6.2 Robust Pluralism
6.3 Problems for Robust Pluralism (two arguments redux)
6.4 Modest Pluralism Again
7. Nature and the Aesthetics of Engagement
7.1 The Challenge to Disinterestedness
7.2 An Engaged Aesthetics of Nature
7.3 Problems for Berleant's Engaged Aesthetic
7.4 Engagement, Unity, and the Aesthetic
8. Animals
8.1 Appreciating Animals
8.2 Normative Questions
8.3 Are there ugly species?
9. Aesthetic Issues in Environmental Protection, Restoration and Rewilding
9.1 Aesthetic Protection in Theory and Practice
9.2 Two Issues for Aesthetic Protection
9.3 Aesthetic Protection, Ethics, and the Problem of Taste
9.4 Biodiversity and the Politics of Aesthetic Protection
9.5 Aesthetic Remediation, Restoration and Rewilding
10. The Sublime, the Picturesque, and the Beautiful
10.1 Rise and Fall of the Sublime
10.2 Contemporary Theories of the Sublime
10.3 Reappraising the Picturesque
10.4 Beauty, Taste and Love of Place
11. Nature in the Garden
11.1 The Garden as Nature
11.2 The Garden as Art
11.3 Is Nature Essential to the Garden?
11.4 Appreciating Gardens: Interaction, Achievement, Atmosphere
12. Art In Nature
12.1 The Ethics of Environmental Art: Four Questions
12.2 Is Environmental Art an Aesthetic Affront to Nature?
12.3 Is the Effrontery Charge Justified?
12.4 Is the Effrontery Charge Coherent?
13. Nature Through Art: Mediated Appreciation
13.1 Mediated Appreciation
13.2 Two Problems for Mediated Appreciation
13.3 Beyond Accuracy: Generative Mediation
14. Epilogue: Aesthetics in the Anthropocene? Philosophical and Empirical Challenges
Bibliography
Index
Recenzii
Weaving together ideas from an impressively wide range of authors, this volume will be of remarkable value to newcomers and experts alike, across the Environmental Humanities. Glenn Parsons' writing is exceptionally clear and accessible, all while being precise and faithful to original sources. If there were only one book I could suggest on the topic, it would be this one.
This text fills a critical omission in the discussion of aesthetics and nature. Parsons captures aesthetic approaches to nature and does so through an exhaustive list of genres such as painting, sculpture, film, literature and more. All the big names in the field are represented as well as movements and schools. The text is essential for scholars in the burgeoning field of literature and the environment, and groups such as the Association for Studies in Literature and the Environment.
This text fills a critical omission in the discussion of aesthetics and nature. Parsons captures aesthetic approaches to nature and does so through an exhaustive list of genres such as painting, sculpture, film, literature and more. All the big names in the field are represented as well as movements and schools. The text is essential for scholars in the burgeoning field of literature and the environment, and groups such as the Association for Studies in Literature and the Environment.