Landscape Aesthetics: Toward an Engaged Ecology

by Alberto L. Siani

The notion of landscape typically seems innocuous, associated with leisure and contemplation. Likewise, aesthetics is often seen as apolitical, a matter of subjective tastes and preferences. This book challenges the common understanding of these categories as disengaged and demonstrates how uniting landscape studies and philosophical aesthetics opens new ways of addressing both the environmental crisis and the crisis of the humanities.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231213670
• ISBN13: 9780231213677
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"