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Sensibility and sense : the aesthetic transformation of the human world / Arnold Berleant.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berleant, Arnold, 1932-
- Series:
- St. Andrews studies in philosophy and public affairs.
- St. Andrews studies in philosophy and public affairs
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aesthetics.
- Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (230 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Exeter, U.K. : Imprint Academic, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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 earth's surface to the celestial sphere, the book focuses on the aesthetic as a dimension of social ex...
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Grounding the world
- pt. 2. Aesthetics and the human world
- pt. 3. Social aesthetics.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-44537-9
- 9786613445377
- 1-84540-292-8
- OCLC:
- 745866948
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