Environmental aesthetics crossing divides and breaking ground /
edited by Martin Drenthen and Jozef Keulartz.
- First edition.
- New York : Fordham University Press, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource.
- Groundworks : ecological issues in philosophy and theology .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part I. Coming of Age; 1 Ten Steps in the Development of Western Environmental Aesthetics; 2 Future Directions for Environmental Aesthetics; 3 On Universalism and Cultural Historicism in Environmental Aesthetics; Part II. Rethinking Relationships; 4 The Cultural Aesthetics of Environment; 5 Toward an Aesthetics of Respect: Kant's Contribution to Environmental Aesthetics; 6 From Theoretical to Applied Environmental Aesthetics: Academic Aesthetics Meets Real-World Demands; Part III. Nature, Art, and the Power of Imagination. 7 Environmental Art and Ecological Citizenship8 Can Only Art Save Us Now?; 9 Landscapes of the Environmental Imagination: Ranging from NASA and Cuyahoga Images to Kiefer and O'Keeffe Paintings; Part IV. Wind Farms, Shopping Malls, and Wild Animals; 10 Beauty or Bane: Advancing an Aesthetic Appreciation of Wind Turbine Farms; 11 Thinking Like a Mall; 12 Aesthetic Value and Wild Animals; Notes; List of Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.
Environmental aesthetics 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. The first part surveys the development of the field and discusses some important future directions. The second part explains how widening the scope of environmental aesthetics demands a continual rethinking of the relationship between aesthetics and other fields. H.