Arnold Berleant

Aesthetics beyond the Arts

New and Recent Essays

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this volume exhibit many sides of the perceptual complex that is the aesthetic field and develop them in different ways. They reinvigorate our understanding of such arts as music and architecture; they range across the natural landscape to the urban one; they reassess the place of beauty in the modern environment and reassess the significance of the contributions to aesthetic theory of Kant and Dewey; and they broach the kinds of meanings and larger understanding that aesthetic engagement with the human environment can offer.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9781409441342
• ISBN-10: 1409441342
• Artikelnr.: 42359902

Autorenporträt

Arnold Berleant, Department of Philosophy, Long Island University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface: towards an aesthetics beyond art
Part I The Arts as Experience: Judging architecture
What titles don't tell
What music isn't and how to teach it. Part II Environmental Aesthetics: Art, nature, environment
The re-shaping of experience
Two ways in the landscape
Scenic beauty in a global context
Forestry aesthetics: forest management as landscape architecture
Distant cities: thoughts on an aesthetics of urbanism
Ideas for an ecological aesthetics
Nature and habitation in a Chinese garden. Part III Implications: Aesthetics without purpose
The legacy of Dewey's aesthetics
Evolutionary naturalism and the abandonment of dualism
The aesthetic politics of environment
The changing meaning of landscape
Beauty and the way of modern life
Index.