Aesthetics and Nature

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Part of the Continuum Aesthetics series, this book addresses all the central issues in the aesthetics of nature.

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Approaching the Philosophy of Natural Beauty	p. 1
Two Worries About Natural Beauty	p. 1
A Short History of Taste in Landscape	p. 6
Philosophical Definition and 'Having an Aesthetic Quality'	p. 11
Imagination, Belief and the Aesthetics of Nature	p. 18
The Role of Thought	p. 18
A Post-modern Approach to the Aesthetics of Nature	p. 23
Objections to the Post-modern Approach	p. 26
Formalism	p. 34
Formalism, Nature and Pictures	p. 34
Strengths of Formalism	p. 39
Objections to Formalism	p. 43
Science and Nature Aesthetics	p. 49
Science and the 'Nature Critic'	p. 49
Another Turn in the Taste for Landscape?	p. 54
Objections to the Science-based Approach	p. 59
Pluralism	p. 66
Modest Pluralism	p. 66
Robust Pluralism	p. 72
Objections to Pluralism	p. 76
Nature and the Disembodied Aesthetic	p. 81
The Challenge to the Disembodied Aesthetic	p. 81
An Engaged Aesthetic for Nature	p. 85
Criticisms of the Engaged Aesthetic	p. 89
Aesthetics and the Preservation of Nature	p. 95
Aesthetic Preservation in Theory and Practice	p. 96
Two Issues for Aesthetic Preservation	p. 102
The Preservationist's Dilemma	p. 107
Nature in the Garden	p. 114
The Garden as Nature	p. 114
The Garden as Art	p. 118
Is Nature Essential to the Garden?	p. 121
Art in Nature	p. 128
Environmental Art: An Affront to Nature?	p. 128
Defending Environmental Art	p. 132
Is the Effrontery Charge Coherent?	p. 137
Notes	p. 141
Bibliography	p. 153
Index	p. 161
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