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George W. Linden's "Reflections on the Screen" and Paul Weiss's "Cinematics" (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 38 (2): 266. 1977.Review of R. Goldwater and M. Treves, eds. Artists on Art, in Leonardo, l0 (l977), 78. Review of George Linden, Reflections on the Screen, and Paul Weiss, Cinematics, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, XXXVIII, 2 (December l977), 266 8.
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122Space by Design: Aesthetic and Moral Issues in Planning Space CommunitiesThe Monist 71 (1): 72-87. 1988.We live in an age in which outer space has changed from a theme for flights of science fiction to the actual locus of exploration and travel.1 Space no longer has merely speculative significance for thinking about possible worlds; it has become a real factor in understanding the nature and conditions of the human world that we are constantly refashioning. Our entry into outer space brings with it changes in conditions and experience that require us to rethink the concepts through which we compre…Read more
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4Guide to the Works of John Dewey (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 32 (2): 285-286. 1971.Review of JoAnn Boydston, ed. Guide to the Works of John Dewey, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, XXXII, 2 (December l97l), 285 286.
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Ben-Ami Scharfstein, Of Birds, Beasts and Other Artists; An essay on the universality of art Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 10 (1): 37-39. 1990.Review of Of Birds, Beasts, and Other Artists: An Essay on the Universality of Art, by Ben-Ami Scharfstein, Canadian Philosophical Reviews, X/1 (January 1990), 37-39.
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2What Happens in Art (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 28 (3): 449-451. 1968.Review of M. Lipman, What Happens in Art? in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, XXVIII, 3 (March l968), 449 45l.
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11Chauncey Wright and the Foundations of Pragmatism (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 25 (1): 148-149. 1964.Review of Edward Madden, Chauncey Wright and the Foundations of Pragmatism, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, XXV, l (September l964), l48 9.
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437Art, Terrorism and the Negative SublimeContemporary Aesthetics 7. 2009.The range of the aesthetic has expanded to cover not only a wider range of objects and situations of daily life but also to encompass the negative. This includes terrorism, whose aesthetic impact is central to its use as a political tactic. The complex of positive and negative aesthetic values in terrorism are explored, introducing the concept of the sublime as a negative category to illuminate the analysis and the distinctive aesthetic of terrorism.
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63A note on the problem on defining `art'Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 25 (2): 239-241. 1964.
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165A Rose by Any Other NameFilozofski Vestnik 28 (2). 2007.This is an essay on the tasks and capacities of aesthetic theory and the pitfalls that beset it. I want to show that aesthetics can be enlightening by revealing and studying the facets and dimensions of experiences we call aesthetic, experience that is expansive and revelatory. This kind of experience can also clarify the relation of aesthetics to other areas of knowledge, such as cultural studies, and conversely, the bearing of other disciplines on our aesthetic understanding. Aesthetic theory,…Read more
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17Aesthetics Beyond the Arts: New and Recent EssaysRoutledge. 2012.The essays in this volume exhibit many sides of the perceptual complex that is the aesthetic field and develop them in different ways. They reinvigorate our understanding of such arts as music and architecture; they range across the natural landscape to the urban one; they reassess the place of beauty in the modern environment and reassess the significance of the contributions to aesthetic theory of Kant and Dewey; and they broach the kinds of meanings and larger understanding that aesthetic eng…Read more
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26Information Theory and Esthetic PerceptionPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 28 (2): 280. 1967.
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22A Current Appraisal of the Behavioral Sciences.Methodology of the Behavioral Sciences: Problems and ControversiesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 26 (1): 124. 1965.
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281An Exchange on DisinterestednessContemporary Aesthetics 1. 2003.The idea of aesthetic disinterestedness has been a central concept in aesthetics since the late eighteenth century. This exchange offers a contemporary reconsideration of disinterestedness from different sides of the question.
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56Aesthetics and the contemporary artsJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 29 (2): 155-168. 1970.
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2Andrew Light and Jonathan M. Smith, eds., Philosophy and Geography I: Space, Place, and Environmental Ethics Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 17 (5): 342-345. 1997.
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80Art and engagementTemple University Press. 1991.In this book Arnold Berleant develops a bold alternative to the eighteenth-century aesthetic of disinterestedness.
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329Aesthetics and Environment Reconsidered: Reply to Carlson: ArticlesBritish Journal of Aesthetics 47 (3): 315-318. 2007.Allen Carlson finds three central problems in my book, Aesthetics and Environment : that it lacks a criterion of the aesthetic itself, that my proposal, aesthetic engagement, is excessively subjective, and that we cannot therefore distinguish between ‘easy’ and ‘serious’ beauty. I respond by uncovering the metaphysical assumptions on which his critique rests and offer more plausible alternatives. I argue, further, that their implications are not only acceptable but fully satisfactory.
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135Aesthetics and environment: Variations on a themeAshgate. 2005.I: Environmental aesthetics -- A phenomenological aesthetics of environment -- Aesthetic dimensions of environmental design -- Down the garden path -- The wilderness city : a study of metaphorical experience -- Aesthetics of the coastal environment -- The world from the water -- Is there life in virtual space? -- Is greasy lake a place? -- Embodied music -- II: Social aesthetics -- The idea of a cultural aesthetic -- The social evaluation of art -- Subsidization of art as social policy -- Morali…Read more
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745The Critical Aesthetics of Disney WorldJournal of Applied Philosophy 11 (2): 171-180. 1994.It might seem strange to propose an aesthetic consideration of the theme park, that artificial bloom in the garden of popular culture.1 The aesthetic is often considered a minority interest in the modern world, yet it offers a distinctive perspective, even on an activity that has mass appeal, and can provide insights that would otherwise remain undiscovered. Aesthetic description and interpretation can illuminate the theme park in many directions: as architecture, design, theater, landscape arch…Read more
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14Reason and Conduct: New Bearings in Moral PhilosophyPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 24 (4): 587-588. 1963.
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462Cultivating an Urban AestheticDiogenes 34 (136): 1-18. 1986.For most people the city, particularly the industrial city, is the antithesis of the aesthetic. While there may be sections that have their charm, trucks and automobiles have conquered the urban streets and pedestrians scurry before them like vanquished before a victor. Gardens and parks are occasional oases amidst the stone desert of concrete and asphalt, but the dominating features of urban experience remain mechanical and electronic noise, trash, monolithic skyscrapers, and moving vehicles. T…Read more
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166Aesthetic Paradigms for an Urban EcologyDiogenes 26 (103): 1-28. 1978.Environmental aesthetics has become a matter of concern to many different groups in recent years—to conservationists, to legislators, reluctantly to industrialists, and indeed to the public at large. This interest seems to have a clear purpose. It is regarded as an effort, belated and desperate, to save the resources and beauties of our natural world from the possibility of complete and irrecoverable exploitation, and from the disfigurement and loss that must follow. It is an attempt to change t…Read more