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Aesthetics beyond the arts : new and recent essays /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berleant, Arnold, 1932-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2012]
Subjects:
Aesthetics.
Arts > Philosophy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Judging architecture
  • What titles don't tell
  • What music isn't and how to teach it
  • Environmental aesthetics
  • Art, nature, environment
  • The re-shaping of experience
  • Two ways in the landscape
  • The art in knowing a landscape
  • Scenic beauty in a global context
  • Forestry aesthetics
  • Distant cities: thoughts on an aesthetics of urbanism
  • Ideas for an ecological aesthetics
  • Nature and habitation in a Chinese garden
  • Implications
  • Aesthetics without purpose
  • The legacy of Dewey's aesthetics
  • Evolutionary naturalism and the abandonment of dualism
  • The aesthetic politics of environment
  • The changing meaning of landscape
  • Beauty and the way of modern life.