The Aesthetics of Environment by Arnold Berleant - 1992-12

Temple Univ Pr, 1992-12-01. Hardcover. Clean & Unmarked /Very Good. 9x6x0. Previous owner tasteful watermark on front free end-paper. Otherwise nice and straight and clean in like dust jacket. 218 pp.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992. 1st. Hardcover. As New in dust jacket. Octavo; (xv), 218 pages.

Temple Univ Pr, 1992. Environmental aesthetics is an emerging discipline that explores the meaning and influence of environmental perception and experience on human life. Arguing for the idea that environment is not merely a setting for people but fully integrated and continuous with us, Arnold Berleant explores the aesthetic dimensions of the human-environment continuum in both theoretical terms and concrete situations. Insisting on the need to reconceptualize environment and recognize its aesthetic implications, he pursues a variety of topics and approaches to environmental aesthetics. Aesthetic experience, maintains Berleant, is always contextual. There is no inside and outside, person and environment, human being and external world. Recognizing that humans, along with all other things, inhabit a single intraconnected realm, he speaks of environment as "a seamless unity of organism, perception, and place" that is suffused with values. The foremost characteristic of environmental… Read More