Abstract
This paper presents the conceptual challenges to an aesthetic model of living plants based in embodied interaction with flora through smell, taste, touch, sound and sight. I argue that the science of aesthetics is deterministically visual. Drawing from theories of landscape aesthetics put forth by Carlson and Berleant, I outline four primary obstacles to an embodied aesthetics: plants as objects of sight, plants as objects of art, plants as objects of disinterestedness and plants as objects of scientific discourse. A multi-sensorial aesthetics of flora requires auto-centric proximity and degrees of intersubjectivity between the appreciator and the appreciated plant that raise important philosophical questions about aesthetic experience of the natural world.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 222-236 |
| Journal | Philosophy Study |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Publication status | Published - 2011 |
Keywords
- Literary Studies
- Philosophy and Religious Studies
- Literary Theory
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