Global Climate Change and Aesthetics Academic Article

abstract

• What kinds of issues does the global crisis of climate change present to aesthetics, and how will they challenge the field to respond? This paper argues that a new research agenda is needed for aesthetics with respect to global climate change (GCC) and outlines a set of foundational issues which are especially pressing: (1) attention to environments that have been neglected by philosophers, for example, the cryosphere and aerosphere; (2) negative aesthetics of environment, in order to grasp aesthetic experiences, meanings, and dis/values in light of the catastrophic effects of GCC; (3) bringing intergenerational thinking into aesthetics through concepts of temporality and 'future aesthetics' (4) understanding the relationship between aesthetic and ethical values as they arise in regard to GCC.

authors

• Brady, Emily

published proceedings

• ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES

author list (cited authors)

• Brady, E.

citation count

• 8

complete list of authors

• Brady, EMILY

publication date

• February 2022

publisher

• White Horse Press  Publisher

published in

• Environmental Values  Journal

keywords

• Aesthetics
• Climate Change
• Environment
• Ethics
• Future Generations
• Nature

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.3197/096327121X16141642287683

start page

• 27

end page

• 46

volume

• 31

issue

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.3197/096327121x16141642287683