Environmental aesthetics : crossing divides and breaking ground / / edited by Martin Drenthen and Jozef Keulartz

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910816470803321
• Autore: Drenthen Martin
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 0-8232-5450-X; 0-8232-5452-6; 0-8232-6091-7; 0-8232-5453-4
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Collana: Groundworks : ecological issues in philosophy and theology
• Disciplina: 304.2
• Soggetti: Environment (Aesthetics); Aesthetics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. Ten Steps in the Development of Western Environmental Aesthetics -- CHAPTER 2. Future Directions for Environmental Aesthetics -- CHAPTER 3. On Universalism and Cultural Historicism in Environmental Aesthetics -- CHAPTER 4. The Cultural Aesthetics of Environment -- CHAPTER 5. Toward an Aesthetics of Respect Kant’s Contribution to Environmental Aesthetics -- CHAPTER 6. From Theoretical to Applied Environmental Aesthetics -- CHAPTER 7. Environmental Art and Ecological Citizenship -- CHAPTER 8. Can Only Art Save Us Now? -- CHAPTER 9. Landscapes of the Environmental Imagination -- CHAPTER 10. Beauty or Bane -- CHAPTER 11. Thinking Like a Mall -- CHAPTER 12. Aesthetic Value and Wild Animals -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Environmental aesthetics crosses several commonly recognized divides: between analytic and continental philosophy, Eastern and Western traditions, universalizing and historicizing approaches, and theoretical and practical concerns. This volume sets out to show how these, perspectives can be brought into conversation with one another. The ; first part surveys the development of the field and discusses some important future directions. The second part explains how widening the scope of environmental aesthetics demands a continual rethinking of the relationship between aesthetics and other fields. How does environmental aesthetics relate to ethics? Does aesthetic appreciation of the environment entail an attitude of respect? What is the relationship between the theory and practice? The third part is devoted to the relationship between the aesthetics of nature and the aesthetics of art. Can art help “save the Earth”? The final part illustrates the emergence of practical applications from theoretical studies by focusing on concrete case studies.