Environmental aesthetics
Subtitle: crossing divides and breaking ground
By: edited by Martin Drenthen and Jozef Keulartz
Edition: First edition.
Series: Groundworks : ecological issues in philosophy and theology; Groundworks (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780823254491; 9780823254507
Subjects: Naturen; Aesthetics; Estetik; Estetiska aspekter; Environment (Aesthetics)
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. I; title: Coming of Age --; title: Ten steps in the development of Western environmental aesthetics  -- Allen Carlson; title: Future directions for environmental aesthetics  -- Yuriko Saito; title: On universalism and cultural historicism in environmental aesthetics  -- Jonathan Maskit -- pt. II; title: Rethinking Relationships --; title: The cultural aesthetics of environment  -- Arnold Berleant; title: Toward an aesthetics of respect : Kant's contribution to environmental aesthetics  -- Denis Dumas; title: From theoretical to applied environmental aesthetics : academic aesthetics meets real-world demands  -- Yrjö Sepänmaa -- pt. III; title: Nature, Art, and the Power of Imagination --; title: Environmental art and ecological citizenship  -- Jason B. Simus; title: Can only art save us now?  -- David Wood; title: Landscapes of the environmental imagination : ranging from NASA and Cuyahoga images to Kiefer and O'Keeffe paintings  -- Irene J. Klaver -- pt. IV; title: Wind Farms, Shopping Malls, and Wild Animals --; title: Beauty or bane : advancing an aesthetic appreciation of wind turbine farms  -- Tyson-Lord Gray; title: Thinking Like a Mall  -- Steven Vogel; title: Aesthetic value and wild animals -- Emily Brady.