Nature, Aesthetics, and Environmentalism: From Beauty to Duty

Nature, Aesthetics, and Environmentalism: From Beauty to Duty
ISBN-10
0231138865
ISBN-13
9780231138864
Category
Environment (Aesthetics).
Pages
478
Language
English
Published
2008
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Authors
Allen Carlson, Sheila Lintott

Description

Nature, Aesthetics, and Environmentalism: From Beauty to Duty addresses the complex relationships between aesthetic appreciation and environmental issues and emphasizes the valuable contribution that environmental aesthetics can make to environmentalism. Allen Carlson, a pioneer in environmental aesthetics, and Sheila Lintott, who has published widely in aesthetics, combine important historical essays on the appreciation of nature with the best contemporary research in the field. They begin with the scientific, artistic, and aesthetic foundations of current environmental beliefs and attitudes. Then they offer views on the conceptualization of nature and the various debates on how to properly and respectfully appreciate nature. The book introduces positive aesthetics, the belief that everything in nature is essentially beautiful, even the devastation caused by earthquakes or floods, and the essays in the final section explicitly bring together aesthetics, ethics, and environmentalism to explore the ways in which each might affect the others. Book jacket.

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