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Author: Carlson, Allen
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The roots of environmental aesthetics reach back to the ideas of eighteenth-century thinkers who found nature an ideal source of aesthetic experience. Today, having blossomed into a significant subfield of aesthetics, environmental aesthetics studies and encourages the appreciation of not just natural environments but also human-made and human-modified landscapes.

Nature and Landscape is an important introduction to this rapidly growing area of aesthetic understanding and appreciation. Allen Carlson begins by tracing the development of the field's historical background, and then surveys contemporary positions on the aesthetics of nature, such as scientific cognitivism, which holds that certain kinds of scientific knowledge are necessary for a full appreciation of natural environments. Carlson next turns to environments that have been created or changed by humans and the dilemmas that are posed by the appreciation of such landscapes. He examines how to aesthetically appreciate a variety of urban and rural landscapes and concludes with a discussion of whether there is, in general, a correct way to aesthetically experience the environment.

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Title Nature and Landscape: An Introduction to Environmental Aesthetics
Author Allen Carlson
Binding Hardback
Pages 208
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Columbia University Press
Publication date 2008-12
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
ISBN 9780231140409 / 0231140401
Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
Dimensions 8.8 x 6.1 x 0.6 in (22.35 x 15.49 x 1.52 cm)
Themes
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Environmental Studies
Category Philosophy
Library of Congress subjects Nature (Aesthetics), Landscape assessment
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008023538
Dewey Decimal Code 111.85

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About the author

Allen Carlson is professor of philosophy at the University of Alberta. He is the author of Aesthetics and the Environment: The Appreciation of Nature, Art and Architecture and, with Glenn Parsons, coauthor of Functional Beauty, as well as coeditor of Nature, Aesthetics, and Environmentalism: From Beauty to Duty, The Aesthetics of Human Environments, and The Aesthetics of Natural Environments.

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