Nature and Landscape: An Introduction to Environmental Aesthetics

Allen Carlson

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Paper, 208 pages, 12 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14041-6
$26.50 / £18.50

December, 2008
Cloth, 208 pages, 12 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14040-9
$80.00 / £55.00

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. The Development and Nature of Environmental Aesthetics

2. Aesthetic Appreciation and the Natural Environment

3. The Requirements for an Adequate Aesthetics of Nature

4. Aesthetic Appreciation and the Human Environment

5. Appreciation of the Human Environment Under Different Conceptions

6. Aesthetic Appreciation and the Agricultural Landscape

7. What Is the Correct Way to Aesthetically Appreciate Landscapes?

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

• Aesthetics

About the Author

Allen Carlson is professor of philosophy at the University of Alberta. He is the author of Aesthetics and the Environment: The Appreciation of Nature, Art and Architecture and, with Glenn Parsons, coauthor of Functional Beauty, as well as coeditor of Nature, Aesthetics, and Environmentalism: From Beauty to Duty, The Aesthetics of Human Environments, and The Aesthetics of Natural Environments.

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