Reviews

"A significant contribution in a field that is only now coming into prominence."--Allen Carlson, editor of Environmental Aesthetics"Environmental ethics, which emerged as a field of philosophical inquiry in the early 1970s, has developed explosively. After a mere quarter-century, there is now more literature in the field than a single scholar can hope to master. Environmental aesthetics, by comparison, is pitifully underworked--even though many more of our decisions to conserve nature have been motivated by environmental aesthetics than by environmental ethics, more by beauty than by duty. This book by Arnold Berleant is therefore especially welcome and important. It will help to advance an inquiry that has been badly neglected but is sorely needed."--J. Baird Callicott, author of Earth's Insights and In Defense of the Land Ethic"For the two hundred years since Immanuel Kant wrote his Critique of Judgment, aestheticians have been debating the difference in the conception of beauty and sublimity, pleasure and delivery from pain or fear, even reverence and awe. In the past thirty years, Arnold Berleant has been calling attention to the ethics and aesthetics of the environment. He is indeed America's latter-day Henry David Thoreau."--E. F. Kaelin, author of An Aesthetics for Art Educators