Sensibility and Sense : The Aesthetic Transformation of the Human World.
Title:
Sensibility and Sense : The Aesthetic Transformation of the Human World.
Author:
Berleant, Arnold.
ISBN:
9781845402921
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (230 pages)
Series:
St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs, 6 ; v.6
St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs, 6
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Front Matter -- Title Page -- Publisher Information -- Dedication -- Quote -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Grounding the World -- Beginning -- Understanding the Aesthetic -- The Aesthetic Argument -- The World as Experienced -- Aesthetics and the Human World -- A Rose by Any Other Name -- The Soft Side of Stone -- An Aesthetics of Urbanism -- Celestial Aesthetics -- Social Aesthetics -- The Negative Aesthetics of Everyday Life -- Art, Terrorism and the Negative Sublime -- Perceptual Politics -- The Aesthetics of Politics -- Back Matter -- Also Available.
Abstract:
Aesthetic sensibility rests on perceptual experience and characterizes not only our experience of the arts but our experience of the world. Sensibility and Sense offers a philosophically comprehensive account of humans' social and cultural embeddedness encountered, recognized, and fulfilled as an aesthetic mode of experience. Extending the range of aesthetic experience from the stone of the earth's surface to the celestial sphere, the book focuses on the aesthetic as a dimension of social ex….
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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