Glenn Parsons

Aesthetics and Nature (eBook, ePUB)

The Appreciation of Natural Beauty and the Environment

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The appreciation of nature and natural beauty demands our attention as environmental issues become ever more urgent. In this timely introduction, Glenn Parsons provides an overview of philosophical work on the aesthetics of nature, identifying key conceptual questions, clarifying central theories, and analyzing the ethical ramifications of our experience of natural beauty.

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350121607
• Artikelnr.: 68497079

Autorenporträt

Glenn Parsons is Professor of Philosophy at Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

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