This Diploma thesis is dealing with an analysis of the space understood like an interactive phenomenon, which is following our aesthetic enjoyment of a landscape. The description of this phenomenon is examined in the work of an American philosopher Arnold Berleant, but against a background of European phenomenological tradition. As a ground, on which can be an understanding of an experience of space built, will be in our thesis the phenomenological inquiry into the perception of corporeity, mainly in the work of Jan Patočka and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. An interaction between subject and object in the aesthetic experience of landscape is appearing as an completely unique, nondelegable and non-repetitive human experience. For the more concrete insight into this issue is necessary to analyze some factors entering into the aesthetic experience of landscape. The first of all is the factor of engaging our senses as an essential background of every aesthetic experience. The next important step is to study the perception of the space-time, the necessity of the bodily movement and a concrete corporeal engagement, which determines our possibilities of an exploration of such an environment. Landscape can not be moved, we have to come and pass through, where it is allowed. This fact does not mean, that we are...

The aim of this dissertation is focusing on environmental aesthetics of Arnold Berleant. Firstly we concentrated on his theoretical aesthetics opinions and then we passed to use them on field of environmental aesthetics. To draw a comparison we used writings of another American aesthetician, Allen Carlson. In sphere of Berleant's theoretical aesthetics opinions it is not possible to omit concepts of aesthetical experience, value and social factor. These points are important ideas of aesthetics of engagement, which we would like to present. As useful for environmental aesthetics we also see Berleant evaluation of negative and positive aesthetics values. In case of Allen Carlson we use several models in the field of theoretical aesthetics. The author assessments the functionality of these models for environmental aesthetics. The last point of this dissertation is focusing on a certain type of environment, to architecture and "Disney World", respective. In this field we wanted to demonstrate how the Berleant works with certain type of environment. Allen Carlson chooses as certain type of environment American farms. He concentrates on point how these farms have changed during one century. KEYWORDS: Arnold Berleant, Allen Carlson, environmental aesthetics, aesthetics value, aesthetics experience

Thesis advisor: Elisa Magri / This thesis will argue that art expresses feeling, affirming the expressivist theory of aesthetics of R.G. Collingwood, and will expand this thesis to say that aesthetic experience of nature is also expressive. By aesthetic experience of nature, I refer to an experience in which the subject is not merely observing, but appreciating the natural world for its aesthetic qualities. I will present the argument that such experiences of nature are governed by the same principles of expression and imagination that intentionally made art objects are. I will begin with an analysis of the expressivist theory of Collingwood, which asserts that all proper art is the result of expression followed by an act of imaginative creation. Following this, I will investigate the expression of feelings in the non-art aesthetic experience of nature. To do this I will present the work of Arnold Berleant, whose framework for aesthetic engagement will allow the expressivist theory of expression and imagination to apply in natural aesthetics. With this framework in place I will explore several examples of aesthetic experience of nature to illustrate this process at work. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2024. / Submitted to: Boston College. Morrissey School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Philosophy. / Discipline: Departmental Honors.