Natural Beauty: A Theory of Aesthetics Beyond the Arts

摘要

This is a thoroughly sensible book on natural beauty. Ronald Moore approaches the manifold problems of developing and defending an aesthetics of natural beauty by using the full resources of the history of aesthetic ideas and a developed aesthetic sensibility. The particular theory he puts forward - the syncretic theory - attempts to combine the reasonable aspects of a number of conflicting approaches while divesting them of the aspects that have been identified as being problematic, either over long periods of scholarship or identified as such in this text.