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E-book Arts, Religion, and the Environment : Exploring Nature's Texture

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Now that we are on the threshold of the Anthropocene epoch, how should humans envision and understand their place in the world? Do humans possess the necessary cultural tools to imagine new possibilities and relationships with the natural environment at a time when our material surroundings (the very system that supports us physically and spiritually) is under siege? To answer questions like these requires more than scientific explanation. Resolution will come from knowledge formation that takes seriously the moral, philosophical, and aesthetic perspectives human beings implicitly rely on to engage with the world. The answers, in other words, will come through the human community opening itself to an interdisciplinary – and even spiritual – exploration.In that vein, this book addresses the imaginative possibilities of address-ing the breakdown of the human relationship with the environment through the visual arts. Bringing together contributions from artists, theologians, an-thropologists and philosophers, it investigates the arts as an important con-temporary bridge between culture and nature, as well as between the human and more-than-human world. This bridge is nearly elemental, insofar as the visual arts highlight the perceptual and affective dimensions of our knowledge of the world. Visual art furthermore cultivates society’s capacity to connect letters and sciences with the complex layers of the public square: with social movements, political constellations, economic power holders, other cultural actors such as media, and the like. In the context of the emerging environmen-tal humanities, the arts act as the strong substantial force of what Wassily Kan-dinsky called the connecting ‘and’ in his famous 1927 essay of that name (1973). For Kandinsky, connecting is the task of the arts, with the aim of overcoming our current social time of ‘either-or.’Underlying the work of the present book is a simple but important claim: hu-mans are ‘meaning-making animals.’ Within a biological framework, humans organize and interpret experience, and through this process human reflection transcends biology. The human encounter with the world might be described as an attempt to intertwine the many facets of existence in a meaningful way. As the vibrant field of environmental aesthetics has shown, this intertwining is not simply a passive operation. We are creative beings as well: we construct and create works of meaning that re-imagine and re-interpret our sense of the world. To encounter the world, therefore, is a profoundly aesthetic experience, at least when we take the term ‘aesthetic’ in an embodied way that acknowl-edges the word’s rootedness in perception.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

700 BAU a

Penerbit

Leiden : BRILL., 2018

Deskripsi Fisik

233 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9789004358980

Klasifikasi

700

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Arts

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