The Research Of The Origin Of Arnold Berleant’s Aesthetics Of Environement

Environmental aesthetics is the product of modern aesthetics rethinking the problem of natural beauty under the background of contemporary environmental crisis.In the order of the evolution of the theory itself,Berleant’s aesthetic theory can be summarized as three key points: aesthetic field,aesthetic intervention and cultural social aesthetics.These three aspects are not only the theoretical internal structure on which his environmental aesthetics relies,but also the bridge between his environmental aesthetics and the deep philosophical and cultural foundation.The pragmatism philosophy and aesthetics represented by Dewey’s empiricism are the ideological basis of Berleant’s environmental aesthetics.Berleant’s inheritance and development of Dewey are particularly reflected in the three aspects of " the spirit of discipline reconstruction ","experience" and "continuity ".It can be said that Berleant’s environmental aesthetics is a kind of pragmatism aesthetics.Phenomenology,especially Merleau-Ponty’s body phenomenology,is Berleant’s most important way of thinking.The phenomenological spirit of "returning to the thing itself" puts forward the specific method of Berleant’s practical environment aesthetics: "descriptive aesthetics".Merleau-Ponty’s discussion of perception in phenomenology of perception and his exploration of the relationship between body and world in visible and invisible also have a profound impact on the concepts of "perception" and "environment" as the basis of the theoretical framework in Berleant’s environmental aesthetics.North American culture has always had the tradition of being close to nature and embracing the wilderness,but the origin between Berleant’s environmental aesthetics and this natural environmental culture is often ignored.This influence is mainly reflected in the inheritance of Berleant’s academic character to the academic concept of Transcendentalism,and the direct influence of Thoreau’s literary creation on Berleant’s theory of natural beauty appreciation.