Appreciating nature as natural: The problem of appreciation ; Glass flowers ; Warhol and Blaschka -- Conceptualism and non-conceptualism: Conceptualism and its problems ; Non-conceptualism and its problems ; Syncretic Aesthetics -- The historical roots of syncretism: early developments: Ancient views ; Medieval and Renaissance views ; Early modern developments -- The historical roots of syncretism: modern developments: -- Kant and the subjective turn ; Schopenhauer and the aesthetic attitude ; Recent aesthetic experience theory ; Critical responses to this theory ; Where this leaves us -- Aesthetic experience revisited: -- Cold plums ; Hunkered-down aesthetic revisited ; Grains of sand -- The framing paradox: Nature unframed ; Nature framed ; The paradox and its resolution -- Syncretic regard- Part I: -- Judges and "True judges" ; The natureworld ; Fundamental elements in judgments of natural beauty. Selective sensory- Completeness within limits- Savoring- Letting nature be nature ; Typal and general judgment -- Syncretic regard- Part II: -- General factors. Intensive beauty- Formal beauty- Formal beauty and formalism- Connective beauty- Elaborative imagination ; Art and nature. Reciprocity: learning from each other- Inhibition: getting in each other's way -- Patterns of appreciation and aesthetic development: Carlson's inventory ; Te place of syncretic theory ; Growing up aesthetically -- Theoretical implications and conclusion: Layers of response ; Hard questions ; Conclusion
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-259) and index
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