Siani Landscape Aesthetics

Toward an Engaged Ecology
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-231-55996-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

This book challenges the common understanding of landscape and aesthetics as disengaged and demonstrates how uniting landscape studies and philosophical aesthetics opens new ways of addressing both the environmental crisis and the crisis of the humanities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Siani, Alberto L.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Garten- und Landschaftsarchitektur
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Pragmatismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Preface
Prologue. Where Are Landscapes?
1. A Game of Landscapes: Methodological, Linguistic, and Conceptual Rules
2. Landscape and Aesthetics
3. Patterns of Encounter I: Aesthetic Matters
4. Patterns of Encounter II: Landscape Matters
5. Building Common Ground: Landscape Character and Its Assessment
6. Lived Landscapes: Three Sketches
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alberto L. Siani is associate professor of aesthetics in the Department of Civilizations and Forms of Knowledge at the University of Pisa. He is the author of Hegel and the Present of Art’s Past Character (2023) and coeditor of Women Philosophers on Autonomy: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (2018), among other publications.