The time of the landscape is not the time when people started
describing gardens, mountains and lakes in poems or representing
them in works of art: it is the time when the landscape imposed
itself as a specific object of thought. It is the time when both
the harmony of arranged gardens and the disharmony of wild nature
led to a revolution in the criteria of the beautiful and in the
meaning of the word "art." It coincided with the birth of
aesthetics, understood as a regime for shaping how art is seen and
thought, and also with the French Revolution, understood as a
revolution in the very idea of what binds together a human
community. The time of the landscape is the time when the
conjunction of these two upheavals brought into focus, however
hazily, a common horizon: that of a revolution that no longer
concerns only the laws of the state or the norms of art, but the
very forms of sensible experience. This brilliant and wide-ranging
book will be of interest to students and scholars in philosophy,
literature, the visual arts, and the humanities generally, and to
anyone interested in critical theory and philosophy.
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