Introduction to Ecological Aesthetics
This book explores in detail the issues of ecological civilization development, ecological philosophy, ecological criticism, environmental aesthetics, and the ecological wisdom of traditional Chinese culture related to ecological aesthetics. Drawing on W
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Introduction to Ecological Aesthetics
Introduction to Ecological Aesthetics
Fanren Zeng
Introduction to Ecological Aesthetics
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Fanren Zeng Shandong University Beijing, China Translated by Wu Lihuan and Chad Austin Meyers
ISBN 978-981-13-8983-2 ISBN 978-981-13-8984-9 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8984-9
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Preface
A New Breakthrough of Ecological Aesthetics in Contemporary Aesthetics Some scholars have asked in what areas ecological aesthetics can have new breakthroughs in the end? Our answer is that the emergence of ecological aesthetics is not only a timely and real development, but also provides a full range of breakthroughs in contemporary aesthetic disciplines with revolutionary significance. In general, we summarize this breakthrough in six areas. The first is the breakthrough of the philosophical basis of aesthetics. This is the transition from traditional epistemology to the existentialism of materialism and the transition from anthropocentrism to ecological holism. As we all know, the relationship between human beings and nature is the most basic philosophical relationship. For a long time, for historical reasons, our aesthetic circles in this basic philosophy have been still in the pre-Marxist philosophical stage—that is, in the traditional epistemological stage. The advocating of practical aesthetics in our country emphasizes that “the
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