Aesthetics

In Nathanaël Wallenhorst & Christoph Wulf (eds.), Handbook of the Anthropocene. Springer. pp. 857-861 (2023)
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Abstract

This article examines the ideas of ‘aesthetic pleasure’ and ‘aesthetic appreciation of nature’ in the Anthropocene. In the framework of the current ecological crisis, the anthropogenic roots of which are today beyond dispute, are the aesthetic categories of ‘beautiful’, ‘sublime’, ‘majestic’ etc. still appropriate to describe our experience of nature? Can a landscape – or an animal or a plant – which have undergone changes and modifications due to climate change (a human-induced phenomenon) still be considered beautiful? More generally, is the idea of nature as an object of aesthetic contemplation still legitimate in the Anthropocene?

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