The Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature,9780199286997

The Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature

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ISBN13: 9780199286997
ISBN10: 019928699X
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Pub. Date: 2006-01-06
Publisher(s): Clarendon Press
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Summary

The aesthetics of nature has over the last few decades become an intense focus of philosophical reflection, as it has been ever more widely recognized that it is not a mere appendage to the aesthetics of art. Everyone delights in the beauty of flowers, and some are thrilled by the immensity of mountains or of the night sky. But what is involved in serious aesthetic appreciation of the natural world? Malcolm Budd presents four interlinked studies in the aesthetics of nature, approaching the subject from a variety of angles. As well as developing Budd's own original ideas, the book provides a comprehensive treatment of Kant's classic aesthetics of nature, and an encyclopedic critical survey of recent literature on the subject.

Table of Contents

Essay 1. The Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature as Nature 1(23)
1.1 The Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature as Nature
1(1)
1.2. The Idea of Nature
2(5)
1.3. Non-Pristine Nature
7(2)
1.4. Responding to Nature as Nature
9(3)
1.5. The Character of an Aesthetic Response
12(3)
1.6. An Aesthetic Response to Nature as Nature
15(4)
1.7. Knowledge of Nature
19(5)
Essay 2. Kant's Aesthetics of Nature 24(66)
I. Kant on Natural Beauty
24(24)
2.1. Introduction
24(1)
2.2. Kant's Notion of an Aesthetic Judgement
25(1)
2.3. Kant's Classification of (Non-Compound) Aesthetic Judgements
26(3)
2.4. The Distinctive Pleasure of the Beautiful
29(5)
2.5. The Judgement of Qualitative Perfection
34(2)
2.6. The Judgement of Dependent (Adherent) Beauty
36(3)
2.7. Unacknowledged Aesthetic Judgements about Natural Things
39(4)
2.8. An Ideal of Beauty
43(3)
2.9. Interested and Disinterested Pleasures
46(2)
II. Kant on Natural Beauty and Morality
48(18)
2.10. A Pure Judgement of Taste Does Not, of Itself, Generate an Interest
48(3)
2.11. An Immediate Interest in Natural Beauty
51(4)
2.12. Morality and an Immediate Interest in Natural Beauty
55(6)
A Note on Schiller
61(5)
III. Kant on the Sublime in Nature
66(24)
2.13. Introduction
66(2)
2.14. Kant's Classification of Pure Aesthetic Judgements of the Sublime
68(1)
2.15. The Mathematically Sublime
69(9)
2.16. The Dynamically Sublime
78(3)
2.17. The Double-Aspect Emotion of the Sublime
81(5)
2.18. The Purity of Aesthetic Judgements of Sublimity
86(4)
Essay 3. Nature, Art, Aesthetic Properties, and Aesthetic Value 90(20)
3.1. Introduction
90(2)
3.2. The Beauty of Art and the Beauty of Nature
92(3)
3.3. Appreciating Nature as What Nature Actually Is
95(2)
3.4. Positive Aesthetics with Respect to Nature
97(9)
3.5. Freedom and Relativity in the Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature
106(4)
Essay 4. The Aesthetics of Nature: A Survey 110(39)
4.1. Introduction
110(2)
4.2. An Aesthetics of Engagement
4.3. Environmental Formalism
112(3)
4.4. Nature's Expressive Qualities
115(4)
4.5. The Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature as Nature
119(2)
4.6. Categories of Nature and Objectivity
121(4)
4.7. Positive Aesthetics
125(2)
4.8. Freedom, Relativity, Objectivity, and Positive Aesthetics
127(2)
4.9. Models of Nature Appreciation
129(17)
4.10. A Chimerical Quest
146(3)
References 149(4)
Index 153

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