Seeing and Being Seen (eBook, ePUB)

Aesthetics and Environmental Philosophy
Redaktion: Coleman, Joshua

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Contemporary environmental Philosophy has overwhelmingly continued certain materialist assumptions toward nature. In its pursuit to better use nature's material offering for future generations, there remains little discussion about these materialist assumptions, much less their contribution to the current crisis. In fact, outside the Modern West, the vast majority of societies saw nature as bringing more than just material, that it brought something more than meets the eye. Thus our conceptions of what is actually seen impacts our response to it,and before even thinking about that response. Along these lines, our conceptions of beauty play a large role in how we approach and determine nature's value. Such aesthetic assumptions directly impact our desires with regard to nature, whether or not we see it as a place of sacred dwelling or merely for surface pleasure and use. And again, aside from the Modern West, nature has been seen as the former, naturally causing a sort of reverence which in turns alters our interactions with the natural world, as well as with non-human animals and other human beings. The ability, then, to see nature as a primary relationship, tied to our aesthetic conceptions and presuppositions, rather than only a place of use for our own continued biological existence, has the potential to impact communal desire with regard to the environment, and it is only such a change in communal desire that will make an effective and lasting impact on the current crisis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761869962
• Artikelnr.: 50286405

Autorenporträt

Joshua Coleman, Ph.D., teaches Philosophy and World Religions to seniors at St. Michael's Catholic Academy in Austin, TX. He has also taught Social Justice at the same school. Dr. Coleman is currently publishing an article on Philosophy and the music group "The Band," as well as writing a book on the relationship between Religion and College Football in the Deep South.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Joshua Coleman Chapter 1: Seeing Nature Whole in Fragments
Frank Seeburger Chapter 2:The Noetics of Poverty in the Paintings of Vincent van Gogh
Joshua Coleman and J. Porter Chapter 3: The Standpoint of Transformativity: Re-envisioning Science
Nature and the Self
Mark Flory Chapter 4: Rethinking Animality
Divinity and Humanity
Donald Turner Chapter 5: "Seeing Nature Whole in Fragments" or "Whole in Nature Seeing Fragments"
Sharon Adams Chapter 6: Toward a Cathartic Ecology
J. Porter and Joshua Coleman