02738nam 2200589zu 450 991048037700332120211005051614.01-61091-296-9(CKB)3710000000387187(SSID)ssj0001461276(PQKBManifestationID)12644010(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001461276(PQKBWorkID)11471184(PQKB)10732930(MiAaPQ)EBC6530896(Au-PeEL)EBL6530896(OCoLC)1244625967(EXLCZ)99371000000038718720160829d1993 uy engurcnu||||||||txtccrPassing strange and wonderful : aesthetics, nature, and culture[Place of publication not identified]Island Press for Shearwater Books19931 online resource (302 pages)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-55963-209-7 Intro -- CONTENTS -- Prologue: Light and Shadows -- PART I: AESTHETICS, NATURE, AND CULTURE -- Chapter 1. The Aesthetic in Life and Culture -- 2. The Development of the Aesthetic Impulse -- PART II: SENSORY DELIGHTS -- 3. Pleasures of the Proximate Senses -- 4. Voices, Sounds, and Heavenly Music -- 5. Visual Delight and Splendor -- PART III: A CULTURAL-AESTHETIC SPECTRUM -- 6. Australian Aborigines, the Chinese, and Medieval Europeans -- 7. American Place and Scene -- PART IV: SYNTHESIS OF SPACE AND THE STATE -- 8. Synesthesia, Metaphor, and Symbolic Space -- 9. Ritual and the Aesthetic-Moral State -- The Chinese Aesthetic-Moral State: T'ang Empire -- Renaissance Venice as an Aesthetic-Moral State -- France: The Sun King's Aesthetic-Moral State -- America the Beautiful and the Moral -- PART V: AESTHETICS AND MORALITY -- 10. Good and Beautiful -- Epilogue: Shadows and Light -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.Aesthetics, ComparativeMoral and ethical aspectsNature (Aesthetics)Environmental ethicsHuman geographyPhilosophyHILCCPhilosophy & ReligionHILCCAestheticsHILCCElectronic books.Aesthetics, ComparativeMoral and ethical aspectsNature (Aesthetics)Environmental ethicsHuman geographyPhilosophyPhilosophy & ReligionAesthetics111/.85Tuan Yi-fu269770PQKBBOOK9910480377003321Passing strange and wonderful : aesthetics, nature, and culture1895089UNINA