More Than a Story: The Two-dimensional Aesthetics of the Forest

• Authors: Dadejik Ondrej , Zuska Vlastimil
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article presents a general conception of aesthetic experience built on an analysis of the relationship between the narrative and the ambient dimensions of the aesthetic value of a natural environment, the forest. First of all, the two dimensions are presented with respect to the possibilities and problems raised by distinguishing between them. Next, the possibilities of their relationship are analysed and it is argued that they are strongly complementary. This complementarity becomes the core of the proposed conception of aesthetic experience, which can explain the difference between the aesthetic and the non-aesthetic, and can also provide an answer to the question of the non-reductive differentiation between the aesthetic experience of nature and the experience of a work of art. The conclusion of the article is mainly concerned to eliminate one of the problems localized in presenting the ambient dimension (the ambience paradox), by means of Ricoeur's conception of the relationship between time and narrative.

Keywords

EN

AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE; AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE OF NATURE; AESTHETIC VALUE; AMBIENT; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL AESTHETICS; FOREST; NARRATIVE

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 47
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 27-50
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Dadejik Ondrej

author

Zuska Vlastimil

• Ondrej Dadejik, Department of Aesthetics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic; http://dlib.lib.cas.cz/5863/

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10CZAAAA082522