Współczesna estetyka przyrody – wybrane zagadnienia
Contemporary aesthetics of nature – selected problems

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to present some of the issues that are particularly important in the field of contemporary aesthetics of nature. This paper primarily takes two categories into account, namely, landscape and natural environment. Such a selection is justified by the fact that they are central to two different approaches to the problem of the aesthetic experience of nature. What is at stake here is a ‘reflexive experience’ that is not so much spontaneous or purely sensual because it is shaped by different sets of categories, artistic or scientific. As a result one can talk of either ‘landscape aesthetics’ or ‘environmental aesthetics’. The question of how people aesthetically appreciate nature is important for it may have a practical bearing on people’s ecological approach.

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