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Title

Natural beauty : a theory of aesthetics beyond the arts / Ronald Moore.

Author

Moore, Ronald (Ronald M.)

Publication

Peterborough, Ont. ; New York : Broadview Press, c2008.

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Description

273 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Natural Beauty presents a bold new philosophical account of the principles involved in making aesthetic judgments about natural objects. It surveys historical and modern accounts of natural beauty and weaves elements derived from those accounts into a "syncretic theory" that centers on key features of aesthetic experience--specifically, features that sustain and reward attention. In this way, Moore's theory sets itself apart from both the purely cognitive and the purely emotive approaches that have dominated natural aesthetics until now. Natural Beauty shows why aesthetic appreciation of works of art and aesthetic appreciation of nature can be mutually reinforcing; that is, how they are cooperative rather than rival enterprises. Moore also makes a compelling case for how and why the experience of natural beauty can contribute to the larger project of living a good life."--Publisher's description.

Series Statement

Critical issues in philosophy

Uniform Title

Critical issues in philosophy.

Subject

• Nature (Aesthetics)
• Aesthetics
• Nature (Esthétique)
• Esthétique

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-259) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Appreciating nature as natural: The problem of appreciation ; Glass flowers ; Warhol and Blaschka -- Conceptualism and non-conceptualism: Conceptualism and its problems ; Non-conceptualism and its problems ; Syncretic Aesthetics -- The historical roots of syncretism: early developments: Ancient views ; Medieval and Renaissance views ; Early modern developments -- The historical roots of syncretism: modern developments: -- Kant and the subjective turn ; Schopenhauer and the aesthetic attitude ; Recent aesthetic experience theory ; Critical responses to this theory ; Where this leaves us -- Aesthetic experience revisited: -- Cold plums ; Hunkered-down aesthetic revisited ; Grains of sand -- The framing paradox: Nature unframed ; Nature framed ; The paradox and its resolution -- Syncretic regard- Part I: -- Judges and "True judges" ; The natureworld ; Fundamental elements in judgments of natural beauty. Selective sensory- Completeness within limits- Savoring- Letting nature be nature ; Typal and general judgment -- Syncretic regard- Part II: -- General factors. Intensive beauty- Formal beauty- Formal beauty and formalism- Connective beauty- Elaborative imagination ; Art and nature. Reciprocity: learning from each other- Inhibition: getting in each other's way -- Patterns of appreciation and aesthetic development: Carlson's inventory ; Te place of syncretic theory ; Growing up aesthetically -- Theoretical implications and conclusion: Layers of response ; Hard questions ; Conclusion.

ISBN

• 9781551115030 (pbk.)
• 1551115034 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2008271553

OCLC

• 144602093
• SCSB-12054449

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library