Does eco-aesthetics exist?

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Published: Sep 1, 2006
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13153/diam.9.2006.256

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Krystyna Wilkoszewska

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It is difficult to answer the question posed in the title. Aesthetics that makes use of ecological inspirations is in the process of coming to be; its final version will require a reworking of traditional philosophy and the aesthetics of nature. I present two examples of such work in current aesthetics; the first is found in American circles, the second in the German tradition: 1. Arnold Berleant’s project of environmental aesthetics, arising from a criticism of Kant’s concept of the disinterestedness of aesthetic experience and tending toward a model of engaged aesthetics; 2. Gernot Böhm’s proposal of a new philosophy and aesthetics of nature. I criticize both proposals, pointing to difficulties in reconciling the traditional understanding of such concepts as nature, aesthetics, and experience with the requirements of an ecological worldview that grants man a place in the world that differs from that provided him by Cartesian thought.

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“Does Eco-Aesthetics Exist?”. 2006. Diametros, no. 9 (September): 136-42. https://doi.org/10.13153/diam.9.2006.256.
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No. 9 (2006)
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Ecology and the Human Condition

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Krystyna Wilkoszewska

Prof. dr hab. Krystyna Wilkoszewska, kierownik Zakładu Estetyki UJ. Prezes Polskiego Towarzystwa Estetycznego. Kierunki badawcze: sztuka współczesna, estetyka pragmatyczna, ekologiczna, transkulturowa. Redaktor serii "Estetyki świata" oraz serii "Klasycy estetyki polskiej". Ważniejsze prace: Sztuka jako rytm życia, Wariacje na postmodernizm. Redakcja: 3 tomowa Antologia estetyki japońskiej, Estetyka czterech żywiołów,Estetyka a ekologia.

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“Does Eco-Aesthetics Exist?”. 2006. Diametros, no. 9 (September): 136-42. https://doi.org/10.13153/diam.9.2006.256.
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