Knowledge, Imagination, and Stories in the Aesthetic Experience of Forests

• Authors: Jukka Mikkonen
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

A key dispute in environmental aesthetics concerns the role of scientific knowledge in our aesthetic appreciation of the natural environment. In this article, I will explore this debate by focusing on the aesthetic experience of forests. I intend to question reductive forms of the scientific approach and support the role of imagination and stories in nature appreciation.

Keywords

EN

aesthetic experience of nature; forest; environmental aesthetics; natural beauty; cognitivism in aesthetics; appreciation; aesthetic evaluation

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 55 (New Series 11)
• Issue: 1
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jukka Mikkonen

• Estetika, redakce, Katedra estetiky, Filozofická fakulta UK, Celená 20, 116 42 Praha 1, Czech Republic