LEADER 02738nam 2200589zu 450 001 9910480377003321 005 20211005051614.0 010 $a1-61091-296-9 035 $a(CKB)3710000000387187 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001461276 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12644010 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001461276 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11471184 035 $a(PQKB)10732930 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6530896 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6530896 035 $a(OCoLC)1244625967 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000387187 100 $a20160829d1993 uy 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPassing strange and wonderful : aesthetics, nature, and culture 210 31$a[Place of publication not identified]$cIsland Press for Shearwater Books$d1993 215 $a1 online resource (302 pages) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-55963-209-7 327 $aIntro -- 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. 606 $aAesthetics, Comparative$xMoral and ethical aspects 606 $aNature (Aesthetics) 606 $aEnvironmental ethics 606 $aHuman geography 606 $aPhilosophy$2HILCC 606 $aPhilosophy & Religion$2HILCC 606 $aAesthetics$2HILCC 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAesthetics, Comparative$xMoral and ethical aspects 615 0$aNature (Aesthetics) 615 0$aEnvironmental ethics 615 0$aHuman geography 615 7$aPhilosophy 615 7$aPhilosophy & Religion 615 7$aAesthetics 676 $a111/.85 700 $aTuan$b Yi-fu$0269770 801 0$bPQKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910480377003321 996 $aPassing strange and wonderful : aesthetics, nature, and culture$91895089 997 $aUNINA