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Title: | Plants as Objects: Challenges For an Aesthetics of Flora | Contributor(s): | Ryan, John C (author) | Publication Date: | 2011 | Open Access: | Yes | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/20904 | Open Access Link: | http://www.davidpublishing.com/show.html?1969 | Abstract: | This paper presents the conceptual challenges to an aesthetic model of living plants based in embodied interaction with flora through smell, taste, touch, sound and sight. I argue that the science of aesthetics is deterministically visual. Drawing from theories of landscape aesthetics put forth by Carlson and Berleant, I outline four primary obstacles to an embodied aesthetics: plants as objects of sight, plants as objects of art, plants as objects of disinterestedness and plants as objects of scientific discourse. A multi-sensorial aesthetics of flora requires auto-centric proximity and degrees of intersubjectivity between the appreciator and the appreciated plant that raise important philosophical questions about aesthetic experience of the natural world. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Philosophy Study, 1(3), p. 222-236 | Publisher: | David Publishing Co., Inc | Place of Publication: | United States of America | ISSN: | 2159-5321 2159-5313 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified 229999 Philosophy and Religious Studies not elsewhere classified 200525 Literary Theory |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 969999 Environment not elsewhere classified 959999 Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classified 970122 Expanding Knowledge in Philosophy and Religious Studies |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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Appears in Collections: | Journal Article School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences |
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