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Title
Plants as Objects: Challenges For an Aesthetics of Flora
Author(s)
Publication Date
2011
Open Access
Yes
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
Peer Reviewed
Yes
HERDC Category Description
Peer Reviewed
Yes
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