The Social Aesthetics of Human Environments
Critical Themes
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 21 September 2023
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781350349322
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages216 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English 547
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Long description:
Across these essays Arnold Berleant demonstrates how aesthetic values and theory can be used to reappraise our social practices. He tackles issues within the built environment, everyday life, and politics, breaking down the dichotomy between the natural and the human. His work represents a fresh approach to traditional philosophical questions in not only ethics, but in metaphysics, truth, meaning, psychology, phenomenology, and social and moral philosophy.
Topics covered include the cultural aesthetics of environment, ecological aesthetics, the aesthetics of terrorism, and the subversion of beauty. The corruption of taste by the forces of commercial interests as well as how aesthetics can advance our understanding of violence are also considered. Berleant's exploration is supported by his analysis of 19th-century art to the present day, starting with impressionism through to postmodernism and contemporary artistic interventions.
By critically examining the field in this way and casting new light on social understanding and practice, this collection makes a substantive contribution in identifying and clarifying central human issues, guided by an understanding of aesthetic engagement as a powerful tool for social critique.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I. Wherefore Aesthetics?
1. Questioning Aesthetics
2. Transformations in Aesthetics
Part II. The Complicit Participant
3. Objects into Persons
4. Duchampian Reflections on Descartes
Part III. Environment as Cultural
5. The Cultural Aesthetics of Environment
6. Some Questions for Ecological Aesthetics
Part IV. Aesthetic Exploitation
7. The Critical Aesthetics of Disney World
8. The Subversion of Beauty
Part V. Negative Aesthetics
9. The Aesthetics of Terrorism
10. Reflections on the Aesthetics of Violence
Part VI. Aesthetics as Cultural Critique
11. The Sublime Troubles of Postmodernism
Part VII. Aesthetic Community
12. Getting Along Beautifully: Ideas for a Social Aesthetics
13. Aesthetics and Community
Notes
Bibliography
Appendix - an annotated bibliography of writings by Arnold Berleant in social and political aesthetics and ethics
Index
