In this interdisciplinary work, philosophers from different specialisms connect with the notion of the wild today and interrogate how it is mediated through the culture of the Anthropocene. They make use of empirical material like specific artworks, films and other cultural works related to the term 'wild' to consider the aesthetic experience of nature, focusing on the untamed, the boundless, the unwieldy, or the unpredictable; in other words, aspects of nature that are mediated by culture. This book maps out the wide range of ways in which we experience the wildness of nature aesthetically, relating both to immediate experience as well as to experience mediated through cultural expression. A variety of subjects are relevant in this context, including aesthetics, art history, theology, human geography, film studies, and architecture. A theme that is pursued throughout the book is the wild in connection with ecology and its experience of nature as both a constructive and destructive force.

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Information

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Year

2022

ISBN

9781350099456

Edition

Topic

Philosophy

Subtopic

Aesthetics in Philosophy

Cover
Half-Title Page
Series Page
Title Page
Contents
List of Illustrations
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Wild. Aesthetics of the Dangerous and Endangered
1 Environmental Aesthetics and Rewilding
2 ‘Wild Thing’: The Aesthetic Prospects of Wildness
3 A Shelter in the Wilderness
4 Of Wolves and Walls: Architecture and the Wild
5 Wild Being: On Human Animality
6 Into the Wild: Aesthetics of the Monstrous
7 Compulsions of Wildness: On Grieg’s Trolls in Lang’s M
8 The Kalevala and Finnish Rune Songs – Wild Impressions in the Music of Sibelius
9 Dangerous and Endangered Nature. Art as a Way of Seeing
10 Wild Weather: Modes of Being at the Mercy in Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind, Turner’s Snowstorm and the Fiji House of the Spirits
11 Watery Wilds: Pond Swimming and Protest on Hampstead Heath
12 The Fallow Land: A Farewell
Index
Plates
Copyright