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Author Berleant, Arnold, 1932-

Title Sensibility and sense : the aesthetic transformation of the human world / Arnold Berleant
Published Exeter : Imprint Academic, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (232 pages)
Series St Andrews studies in philosophy and public affairs ; v. 6
St. Andrews studies in philosophy and public affairs ; v. 6.
Contents pt. 1. Grounding the world -- pt. 2. Aesthetics and the human world -- pt. 3. Social aesthetics
Summary "Aesthetic sensibility rests on perceptual experience and characterizes not only our experience of the arts but our experience of the world. Sensibility and Sense offers a philosophically comprehensive account of humans' social and cultural embeddedness encountered, recognized, and fulfilled as an aesthetic mode of experience. Extending the range of aesthetic experience from the stone of the earths surface to the celestial sphere, the book focuses on the aesthetic as a dimension of social experience. The guiding idea of pervasive interconnectedness, both social and environmental, leads to an aesthetic critique of the urban environment, the environment of daily life, and of terrorism, and has profound implications for grounding social and political values. The aesthetic emerges as a powerful critical tool for appraising urban culture and political practice."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Aesthetics.
Aesthetics -- Social aspects
PHILOSOPHY -- Aesthetics.
Aesthetics
Aesthetics -- Social aspects
Ästhetik
Gesellschaft
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781845402921
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