The Aesthetics of Environment
by Project Muse, Berleant, Arnold
fromBook collections on Project MUSE
by Project Muse, Berleant, Arnold
fromBook collections on Project MUSE
""Not since Thoreau has an American author displayed such a profound appreciation for the aesthetics of nature; but, unlike Thoreau, Berleant has designed a program for allowing others to join in on that appreciation."" --E. F. Kaelin, Professor of Philosophy, Florida State Univ…
Environmental aesthetics is an emerging discipline that explores the meaning and influence of environmental perception and experience on human life. Arguing for the idea that environment is not merely a setting for people but fully integrated and continuous with us, Arnold Berle…
"Reading literature new and old, images and art, literary and critical theory, science and cultural studies, Close Reading the Anthropocene explores question of meaning, its importance and immanent potential for loss, in the new geological epoch of the Anthropocene. Both close r…
"Reading literature new and old, images and art, literary and critical theory, science and cultural studies, Close Reading the Anthropocene explores question of meaning, its importance and immanent potential for loss, in the new geological epoch of the Anthropocene. Both close r…
"Reading literature new and old, images and art, literary and critical theory, science and cultural studies, Close Reading the Anthropocene explores question of meaning, its importance and immanent potential for loss, in the new geological epoch of the Anthropocene. Both close r…
"A travers neuf courts chapitres illustrés, conçus comme un processus d'auto-observation, Peter Zumthor décrit ce qui l'inspire lorsqu'il crée l'atmosphère de ses bâtiments : images d'espace et de lumières, mais aussi photographies, morceaux de musique et livres.
Peter Zumthor's passion is the creation of buildings with architectural atmosphere. But how can one actually set out to achieve it? In nine short, illustrated chapters framed as a process of self-observation, Zumthor describes what he has on his mind as he sets about creating th…
""Stepping through Origins" addresses the place of the aesthetics of nature, landscape, and family in Irish literature, aiming to show how nature is associated with a complex web of Original Sin, colonial conquest, and Oedipal guilt, and how finally some contemporary writers in …
""Stepping through Origins" addresses the place of the aesthetics of nature, landscape, and family in Irish literature, aiming to show how nature is associated with a complex web of Original Sin, colonial conquest, and Oedipal guilt, and how finally some contemporary writers in …