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Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature Essays on the Aesthetics of Nature

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ISBN-10: 0199259658

ISBN-13: 9780199259656

Edition: 2003

Authors: Malcolm Budd

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The aesthetics of nature has over the last few decades become an intense focus of philosophical reflection, as it has been ever more widely recognised that it is not a mere appendage to the aesthetics of art. Just as nature offers aesthetic experiences beyond the reach of art, so the aesthetics of nature raises issues not contained within the philosophy of art. Malcolm Budd presents four interlinked essays addressing all the main problems about the aesthetics of nature. These include: how the aesthetic appreciation of nature should be understood; the character of an aesthetic response to nature; what kinds of aesthetic experience nature affords and what kinds of aesthetic judgement it is…    
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Book details

Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/10/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 172
Size: 5.71" wide x 8.82" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English

The Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature as Nature
The Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature as Nature
The Idea of Nature
Non-Pristine Nature
Responding to Nature as Nature
The Character of an Aesthetic Response
An Aesthetic Response to Nature as Nature
Knowledge of Nature
Kant's Aesthetics of Nature
Kant on Natural Beauty
Introduction
Kant's Notion of an Aesthetic Judgement
Kant's Classification of (Non-Compound) Aesthetic Judgements
The Distinctive Pleasure of the Beautiful
The Judgement of Qualitative Perfection
The Judgement of Dependent (Adherent) Beauty
Unacknowledged Aesthetic Judgements about Natural Things
An Ideal of Beauty
Interested and Disinterested Pleasures
Kant on Natural Beauty and Morality
A Pure Judgement of Taste Does Not, of Itself, Generate an Interest
An Immediate Interest in Natural Beauty
Morality and an Immediate Interest in Natural Beauty
A Note on Schiller
Kant on the Sublime in Nature
Introduction
Kant's Classification of Pure Aesthetic Judgements of the Sublime
The Mathematically Sublime
The Dynamically Sublime
The Double-Aspect Emotion of the Sublime
The Purity of Aesthetic Judgements of Sublimity
Nature, Art, Aesthetic Properties, and Aesthetic Value
Introduction
The Beauty of Art and the Beauty of Nature
Appreciating Nature as What Nature Actually Is
Positive Aesthetics with Respect to Nature
Freedom and Relativity in the Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature
The Aesthetics of Nature: A Survey
Introduction
An Aesthetics of Engagement
Environmental Formalism
Nature's Expressive Qualities
The Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature as Nature
Categories of Nature and Objectivity
Positive Aesthetics
Freedom, Relativity, Objectivity, and Positive Aesthetics
Models of Nature Appreciation
A Chimerical Quest
References
Index