Sensibility and Sense - The Aesthetic Transformation of the Human World

Informationen zum Autor Arnold Berleant is Professor Emeritus of philosophy at Long Island University and Past President of the International Association of Aesthetics. Klappentext Sensibility and Sense offers a philosophically comprehensive account of humans' social and cultural embeddedness encountered, recognized, and fulfilled as an aesthetic mode of experience. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction; Prologue: Community and the human landscape; Part I: Beginning and the social world. Ch. 1 A rose by any other name; Ch. 2 Words! edges! boundaries; Ch. 3 The social search for beginnings; Pt. II Locating a Social Aesthetic. Ch. 4 The range of the aesthetic; Ch. 5 Aesthetic ecology and the human landscape; Ch. 6 The soft side of stone; Pt. III Aesthetic directions in social philosophy. Ch. 7 The rational community; Ch. 8 The moral community; Ch. 9 The aesthetic community.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Berleant, Arnold Berleant
• Publisher: Imprint Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2009
• EAN: 9781845400767
• ISBN: 978-1-84540-076-7
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 210 mm x 19 mm
• Series: St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs; St Andrews Studies in Philosop
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)