What is aesthetic experience?
We then look at some influential categories of aesthetic appreciation in the history of philosophy: the beautiful, the sublime and the picturesque. Some helpful overview articles on environmental aesthetics can be found in the following: Salim Kemal and Ivan Gaskell, ‘Nature, Fine Arts, and Aesthetics’ in Kemal and Gaskell. John A. Fisher, ‘Environmental Aesthetics’ and Malcolm Budd, ‘Aesthetics of Nature’ both in The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics, ed. Jerrold Levinson, Oxford, 2003. (Budd can also be found in essay 4 of his book, The Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature, Oxford, 2002.
