The Nature of Aesthetic Value
Author : Hugo A. Meynell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 27,18 MB
Release : 1986-06-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1349079243
Author : Hugo A. Meynell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 27,18 MB
Release : 1986-06-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1349079243
Author : Malcolm Budd
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 45,88 MB
Release : 2005-11-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199286997
The aesthetics of nature has over the last few decades become an intense focus of philosophical reflection, as it has been ever more widely recognised that it is not a mere appendage to the aesthetics of art. Everyone delights in the beauty of flowers, and some are thrilled by the immensity of mountains or of the night sky. But what is involved in serious aesthetic appreciation of the natural world? Malcolm Budd presents four interlinked studies in the aesthetics of nature, approaching the subject from a variety of angles. As well as developing Budd's own original ideas, the book provides a comprehensive treatment of Kant's classic aesthetics of nature, and an encyclopaedic critical survey of recent literature on the subject.
Author : Glenn Parsons
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 41,49 MB
Release : 2008-11-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0826496768
Part of the Continuum Aesthetics series, this book addresses all the central issues in the aesthetics of nature.
Author : Edited by: Kisak
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 50,33 MB
Release : 2015-11-12
Category :
ISBN : 9781519287595
Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of art, beauty, and taste, with the creation and appreciation of beauty. It is more scientifically defined as the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste. More broadly, scholars in the field define aesthetics as "critical reflection on art, culture and nature." In modern English, the term aesthetic can also refer to a set of principles underlying the works of a particular art movement or theory for example; the Cubist aesthetic. For some, aesthetics is considered a synonym for the philosophy of art since Hegel, while others insist that there is a significant distinction between these closely related fields. In practice, aesthetic judgement refers to the sensory contemplation or appreciation of an object (not necessarily an art object), while artistic judgement refers to the recognition, appreciation or criticism of art or an art work. Philosophical aesthetics has not only to speak about art and to produce judgments about art works, but has also to give a definition of what art is. Art is an autonomous entity for philosophy, because art deals with the senses (i. e. the etymology of aesthetics) and art is as such free of any moral or political purpose. Hence, there are two different conceptions of art in aesthetics: art as knowledge or art as action, but aesthetics is neither epistemology nor ethics. This book concentrates on the branch of philosophy called aesthetics.
Author : Hubert Zapf
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 13,46 MB
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110314592
Ecocriticism has emerged as one of the most fascinating and rapidly growing fields of recent literary and cultural studies. From its regional origins in late-twentieth-century Anglo-American academia, it has become a worldwide phenomenon, which involves a decidedly transdisciplinary and transnational paradigm that promises to return a new sense of relevance to research and teaching in the humanities. A distinctive feature of the present handbook in comparison with other survey volumes is the combination of ecocriticism with cultural ecology, reflecting an emphasis on the cultural transformation of ecological processes and on the crucial role of literature, art, and other forms of cultural creativity for the evolution of societies towards sustainable futures. In state-of-the-art contributions by leading international scholars in the field, this handbook maps some of the most important developments in contemporary ecocritical thought. It introduces key theoretical concepts, issues, and directions of ecocriticism and cultural ecology and demonstrates their relevance for the analysis of texts and other cultural phenomena.
Author : Chris Angle
Publisher : Philosophy Publishing Co.
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 35,48 MB
Release : 1999-07
Category :
ISBN : 9780966112603
Author : Emily Brady
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 28,20 MB
Release : 2013-08-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107276268
In The Sublime in Modern Philosophy: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Nature, Emily Brady takes a fresh look at the sublime and shows why it endures as a meaningful concept in contemporary philosophy. In a reassessment of historical approaches, the first part of the book identifies the scope and value of the sublime in eighteenth-century philosophy (with a focus on Kant), nineteenth-century philosophy and Romanticism, and early wilderness aesthetics. The second part examines the sublime's contemporary significance through its relationship to the arts; its position with respect to other aesthetic categories involving mixed or negative emotions, such as tragedy; and its place in environmental aesthetics and ethics. Far from being an outmoded concept, Brady argues that the sublime is a distinctive aesthetic category which reveals an important, if sometimes challenging, aesthetic-moral relationship with the natural world.
Author : Salim Kemal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 22,7 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521558549
A distinguished group of scholars here probes the complex structure of aesthetic responses to nature in a discussion enriched with insights from art history, literary criticism, geography and philosophy. Exploring the interrelation among nature, beauty and art, they show that natural beauty is impregnated with concepts derived from the arts and from particular accounts of nature. The distinction and relation between art and nature are questioned, and the volume culminates in philosophical studies of the role of scientific understanding, engagement and appreciation in aesthetics.
Author : Allen Carlson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 36,28 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780415301053
This books presents fresh and fascinating insights into our interpretation of the environment and shows how our aesthetic experience encompasses nature rather than art.
Author : Malcolm Budd
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 39,83 MB
Release : 2008-11-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0191565032
The book brings together a selection of Malcolm Budd's essays in aesthetics. A number of the essays are aimed at the abstract heart of aesthetics, attempting to solve a cluster of the most important issues in aesthetics which are not specific to particular art forms. These include the nature and proper scope of the aesthetic, the intersubjective validity of aesthetic judgements, the correct understanding of aesthetic judgements expressed through metaphors, aesthetic realism versus anti-realism, the character of aesthetic pleasure and aesthetic value, the aim of art and the artistic expression of emotion. Other essays are focussed on central issues in the aesthetics of particular art forms: two engage with the most fundamental issue in the aesthetics of music, the question of the correct conception of the phenomenology of the experience of listening to music with understanding; and two consider the nature of pictorial representation, one examining certain well-known views, the other articulating an alternative conception of seeing a picture as a depiction of a certain state of affairs. The final essay in the volume is a comprehensive reconstruction and critical examination of Wittgenstein's aesthetics, both early and late.