Sensibility and sense : the aesthetic transformation of the human world / Arnold Berleant.

Main entry:

Berleant, Arnold, 1932-

Title & Author:

Sensibility and sense : the aesthetic transformation of the human world / Arnold Berleant.

Publication:

Description:

232 pages ; 22 cm.

Series:

St Andrews studies in philosophy and public affairs ; v. 6

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. I. Grounding the world. Beginning ; Understanding the aesthetic ; The aesthetic argument ; The world as experienced -- pt. II. Aesthetics and the human world. A rose by any other name ; The soft side of stone ; An aesthetics of urbanism ; Celestial aesthetics -- pt. III. Social aesthetics. The negative aesthetics of everyday life ; Art, terrorism and the negative sublime ; Perceptual politics ; The aesthetics of politics.

Summary:

"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 earths surface to the celestial sphere, the book focuses on the aesthetic as a dimension of social experience. The guiding idea of pervasive interconnectedness, both social and environmental, leads to an aesthetic critique of the urban environment, the environment of daily life, and of terrorism, and has profound implications for grounding social and political values. The aesthetic emerges as a powerful critical tool for appraising urban culture and political practice."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

9781845401733 (hbk.)
1845401735 (hbk.)
9781845400767 (pbk.)
1845400763 (pbk.)

Subject:

Aesthetics.
Aesthetics Social aspects.
Gesellschaft
Ästhetik
Environment (Aesthetics)
Estetik.

Added entries:

St. Andrews studies in philosophy and public affairs ; v. 6.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 279791
Call No.: BIB 216013
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available

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