The roots of environmental aesthetics reach back to the ideas of
eighteenth-century thinkers who found nature an ideal source of
aesthetic experience. Today, having blossomed into a significant
subfield of aesthetics, environmental aesthetics studies and
encourages the appreciation of not just natural environments but
also human-made and human-modified landscapes.
"Nature and Landscape" is an important introduction to this
rapidly growing area of aesthetic understanding and appreciation.
Allen Carlson begins by tracing the development of the field's
historical background, and then surveys contemporary positions on
the aesthetics of nature, such as scientific cognitivism, which
holds that certain kinds of scientific knowledge are necessary for
a full appreciation of natural environments. Carlson next turns to
environments that have been created or changed by humans and the
dilemmas that are posed by the appreciation of such landscapes. He
examines how to aesthetically appreciate a variety of urban and
rural landscapes and concludes with a discussion of whether there
is, in general, a correct way to aesthetically experience the
environment.
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