Contemporary Aesthetics (Jan 2016)

Landscapes of Human Experience

  • Martin Seel

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Vol. 13

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This essay begins with some observations concerning the interaction between nature and art. Relying on these reflections, in the second part experience of landscape will be interpreted as a model for the human stance within the natural as well as the historical world. In the third part some consequences for an ethics and politics of saving the conditions for individual as well as social well-being will be drawn.

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