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Book SynopsisEnvironmental aesthetics today harbours a wide range of perspectives, and 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.
Trade Review"Environmental Aesthetics provides an excellent overview of the current state of the discipline, acknowledging the divides that question disciplinary identity whilst demonstrating a firm sense of maturity and future research direction." -Environment and History "This excellent contribution to the burgeoning field of research and reflection on environmental aesthetics is particularly valuable in the range of perspectives that it brings together, bridging the analytic and continental European philosophical traditions, Eastern and Western cultural frameworks, and cognitive and affective understandings of aesthetic experience. These different approaches are brought into conversation with one another as the authors reference, and sometimes productively critique, one anothers' arguments. This lends the volume as a whole a degree of coherence, while reinforcing the diversity of positions on environmental aesthetics that it showcases. Addressing also connections between aesthetics and ethics, philosophical questions and practical outcomes, this volume is exemplary of the potential of new work in the environmental humanities to engage with the pressing ecological and social concerns of our day." -- -Kate Rigby Professor of Environmental Humanities. Monash University
Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Martin Drenthen and Jozef Keulartz Part I. Coming of Age Ten Steps in the Development of Western Environmental Aesthetics Allen Carlson Future Directions for Environmental Aesthetics Yuriko Saito European and American Approaches to Environmental Aesthetics Jonathan Maskit Part II. Rethinking Relationships The Language of Environment Arnold Berleant Toward an Aesthetics of Respect Denis Dumas From Theoretical to Applied Environmental Aesthetics Yrjo Sepanmaa Part III. Nature, Art, and the Power of Imagination Environmental Art and Ecological Citizenship Jason Simus Can Only Art Save us Now? David Wood Landscapes of the Environmental Imagination: Ranging from NASA and Cuyahoga Images to Kiefer and O'Keeffe Paintings Irene Klaver Part IV. Wind Farms, Shopping Malls and Wild Animals Beauty or Bane: Advancing an Aesthetic Appreciation for Wind Farms Tyson-Lord Gray Thinking Like a Mall Steven Vogel Aesthetic Value and Wild Animals Emily Brady Notes List of Contributors Index
