Publication details
Nature as an aesthetic object - from rural landscape to wilderness
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| Year of publication | 2007 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Proceedings of PECSRL-Conference |
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| web | http://www.geog.fu-berlin.de/~pecsrl/index.html |
| Field | Philosophy and religion |
| Keywords | Aesthetics of nature; natural beauty; rural and wild nature |
| Description | The aesthetic approach to nature as an interesting view point on the history of the relationship between European culture and landscape and as background for interpreting our relationship to nature. The traditional appreciation of rural or semirural landscape has deep roots in European culture and can already be found in antiquity. But during the 18th century this traditional point of view changed to appreciation of untamed nature, or even wilderness: mostly in the form of mountains and forests. This change was inspired by and reflected in the fields of philosophy (Shaftesbury, Rousseau, Kant). |