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Nature and Landscape: An Introduction to Environmental Aesthetics
Allen Carlson
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Description for Nature and Landscape: An Introduction to Environmental Aesthetics
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 12 illus. BIC Classification: HPN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 336.
The roots of environmental aesthetics reach back to the ideas of eighteenth-century thinkers who found nature an ideal source of aesthetic experience. Today, having blossomed into a significant subfield of aesthetics, environmental aesthetics studies and encourages the appreciation of not just natural environments but also human-made and human-modified landscapes. Nature and Landscape is an important introduction to this rapidly growing area of aesthetic understanding and appreciation. Allen Carlson begins by tracing the development of the field's historical background, and then surveys contemporary positions on the aesthetics of nature, such as scientific cognitivism, which holds that certain kinds of scientific knowledge ... Read more
The roots of environmental aesthetics reach back to the ideas of eighteenth-century thinkers who found nature an ideal source of aesthetic experience. Today, having blossomed into a significant subfield of aesthetics, environmental aesthetics studies and encourages the appreciation of not just natural environments but also human-made and human-modified landscapes. Nature and Landscape is an important introduction to this rapidly growing area of aesthetic understanding and appreciation. Allen Carlson begins by tracing the development of the field's historical background, and then surveys contemporary positions on the aesthetics of nature, such as scientific cognitivism, which holds that certain kinds of scientific knowledge ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
335g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231140416
SKU
V9780231140416
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About Allen Carlson
Allen Carlson is professor of philosophy at the University of Alberta. He is the author of Aesthetics and the Environment: The Appreciation of Nature, Art and Architecture and, with Glenn Parsons, coauthor of Functional Beauty, as well as coeditor of Nature, Aesthetics, and Environmentalism: From Beauty to Duty, The Aesthetics of Human Environments, and The Aesthetics of Natural Environments.
Reviews for Nature and Landscape: An Introduction to Environmental Aesthetics
A superbly clear, much needed, methodological framework, the natural environmental model, for the emerging field of environmental aesthetics... Highly recommended. Choice Convenient for anyone eager to learn about Carlson's aesthetics, which is expressed in percipent, clear prose.
Frank Derringh Environmental Ethics
Frank Derringh Environmental Ethics