Buch, Englisch, 201 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 431 g
Reihe: Routledge Revivals
Collected Essays on Art and Nature
Buch, Englisch, 201 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 431 g
Reihe: Routledge Revivals
ISBN: 978-1-138-72665-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
This title was first published in 2001. This book focuses on the rich web of interrelations between aesthetic and wider human concerns. Among topics explored are concepts of truth and falsity (within art and aesthetic experience generally), superficiality and depth in aesthetic appreciation of nature, moral beauty and ugliness, the projects of integrating a life, of fashioning a life as a work of art, experiments in the aesthetic re-working of the 'sacred', the role of imagination within religion and in our attempts to place and identify ourselves within the cosmos. The essays are both interlinked and distinct, allowing them to be read in any order, and providing useful themes for discussion groups and seminars. The author aims to arouse in the reader something of his enjoyment in unravelling the connections of ideas that come into view when one approaches aesthetics in its widest setting.
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Contents: Introduction; Trivial and serious in the aesthetic appreciation of nature; Truth, subjectivity and the aesthetic; Aesthetic and moral: links and limits. Part I; Aesthetic and moral: links and limits. Part II; Life and life-enhancement as key concepts of aesthetics; Religious imagination; Aesthetic and religious: boundaries, overlaps and intrusions; Restoring the sacred: sacred as a concept of aesthetics; Data and theory in aesthetics: philosophical understanding and misunderstanding; Values and cosmic imagination; Index.
