Aesthetics and Nature : The Appreciation of Natural Beauty and the Environment.
Parsons, Glenn.
Aesthetics and Nature : The Appreciation of Natural Beauty and the Environment. - 1st ed. - London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023. ©2023. - 1 online resource (401 pages) - Bloomsbury Aesthetics Series . - Bloomsbury Aesthetics Series .
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Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Aesthetics and nature from an analytic perspective -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 2: The conceptual background: 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 the aesthetic -- Chapter 3: Imagination, belief, and the aesthetics of nature -- 3.1 From ethics to ice cream -- 3.2 Thought content -- 3.3 Anything goes? A relativist approach -- 3.4 Objections to the relativist approach -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 5: Science and nature aesthetics -- 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 -- Chapter 6: Pluralism -- 6.1 A modest pluralism -- 6.2 Robust pluralism -- 6.3 Problems for robust pluralism -- 6.4 Modest pluralism again -- Chapter 7: Nature and the aesthetics of engagement -- 7.1 The challenge to disinterestedness -- 7.2 An engaged aesthetic for nature -- 7.3 Problems for the engaged aesthetic -- 7.4 Engagement, unity, and aesthetic experience -- Chapter 8: Animals -- 8.1 Appreciating animals -- 8.2 Normative questions -- 8.3 Are there ugly species? -- Chapter 9: Aesthetic issues in nature protection, restoration, and rewilding -- 9.1 Aesthetic protection in theory and practice -- 9.2 Two issues for Aesthetic Protectionism. 9.3 Aesthetic protection, morality, and the problem of Taste -- 9.4 Biodiversity and the politics of aesthetic protection -- 9.5 Aesthetic remediation, restoration, and rewilding -- Chapter 10: The sublime, the picturesque, and the beautiful -- 10.1 The 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 -- Chapter 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, atmosphere, achievement -- Chapter 12: Art in nature -- 12.1 The ethics of environmental art: Four questions -- 12.2 Environmental art: An affront to nature? -- 12.3 Is the effrontery charge justified? -- 12.4 Is the effrontery charge coherent? -- Chapter 13: Nature through art: Mediated appreciation -- 13.1 Mediated appreciation -- 13.2 Two problems for mediated appreciation -- 13.3 Beyond accuracy: Generative mediation -- Epilogue: Aesthetics in the Anthropocene? Philosophical and empirical challenges -- Bibliography -- Index.
9781350121614
Aesthetics.
Fernzugriff
Aesthetics and Nature : The Appreciation of Natural Beauty and the Environment. - 1st ed. - London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023. ©2023. - 1 online resource (401 pages) - Bloomsbury Aesthetics Series . - Bloomsbury Aesthetics Series .
E-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich
Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Aesthetics and nature from an analytic perspective -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 2: The conceptual background: 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 the aesthetic -- Chapter 3: Imagination, belief, and the aesthetics of nature -- 3.1 From ethics to ice cream -- 3.2 Thought content -- 3.3 Anything goes? A relativist approach -- 3.4 Objections to the relativist approach -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 5: Science and nature aesthetics -- 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 -- Chapter 6: Pluralism -- 6.1 A modest pluralism -- 6.2 Robust pluralism -- 6.3 Problems for robust pluralism -- 6.4 Modest pluralism again -- Chapter 7: Nature and the aesthetics of engagement -- 7.1 The challenge to disinterestedness -- 7.2 An engaged aesthetic for nature -- 7.3 Problems for the engaged aesthetic -- 7.4 Engagement, unity, and aesthetic experience -- Chapter 8: Animals -- 8.1 Appreciating animals -- 8.2 Normative questions -- 8.3 Are there ugly species? -- Chapter 9: Aesthetic issues in nature protection, restoration, and rewilding -- 9.1 Aesthetic protection in theory and practice -- 9.2 Two issues for Aesthetic Protectionism. 9.3 Aesthetic protection, morality, and the problem of Taste -- 9.4 Biodiversity and the politics of aesthetic protection -- 9.5 Aesthetic remediation, restoration, and rewilding -- Chapter 10: The sublime, the picturesque, and the beautiful -- 10.1 The 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 -- Chapter 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, atmosphere, achievement -- Chapter 12: Art in nature -- 12.1 The ethics of environmental art: Four questions -- 12.2 Environmental art: An affront to nature? -- 12.3 Is the effrontery charge justified? -- 12.4 Is the effrontery charge coherent? -- Chapter 13: Nature through art: Mediated appreciation -- 13.1 Mediated appreciation -- 13.2 Two problems for mediated appreciation -- 13.3 Beyond accuracy: Generative mediation -- Epilogue: Aesthetics in the Anthropocene? Philosophical and empirical challenges -- Bibliography -- Index.
9781350121614
Aesthetics.
Fernzugriff