The essays collected in Aesthetics and Environment comprise a set
of variations on art and culture guided by the theme of
environment. The essays deal with the physical reality of
environment such as the city, the shore, the water and the garden,
but also with the virtual environment and the social one.
Environmental aesthetics is a theme whose variations are as endless
as the possibilities of the human performers and conditions from
which it is fashioned. This enticing set of essays testifies to
Berleant's special talent in moving easily between both natural and
human environments and opens out the contemporary discussion beyond
that of the wilderness to the cultural and social environment.
Berleant argues that neither the natural nor human environment
stands alone and both are best understood as distinctions that are
in experience coextensive, that one can only speak of environment
in relation to human experience. The theme of this book is that
such experience suffuses the so-called natural world and shapes the
human world. It maintains the idea that in as much as people are
embedded in these worlds, relationships, including human
relationships, are part of them. The melding of these two worlds
leads Berleant to defend ultimately what he has termed 'social
aesthetics' .
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