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Berleant, Arnold

Sensibility and Sense

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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 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.

Keywords: Aesthetics, Social, society, Political, politics, philosophy, Culture, life, art, urbanism, negative sublime, terrorism

Author(s)
Publisher
Andrews UK
Publication year
2011
Language
en
Edition
2
Series
St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs
Page amount
230 pages
Category
Philosophy
Format
Ebook
eISBN (ePUB)
9781845402938
Printed ISBN
9781845400767

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