Overview
- Discusses how ruins acquire aesthetic value
- Provides recommendations about what we should do with urban industrial ruins and how we should understand the phenomenon of “ruin porn”
- Intended for readers interested in aesthetics, architecture, and ruined environments
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book provides the first recent philosophical account of how ruins acquire aesthetic value. It draws on a variety of sources to explore modern ruins, the ruin tradition, and the phenomenon of “ruin porn.” It features an unusual and original combination of philosophical analysis, the author’s photography, and reviews of both new and historically influential case studies, including Richard Haag’s Gas Works Park, the ruins of Detroit, and remnants of the steel industry of Pennsylvania. Tanya Whitehouse shows how the users of ruins can become architects of a new order, transforming derelict sites into aesthetically significant places we should preserve.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Tanya Whitehouse is a philosophy professor and arts student who has taught a variety of university and college philosophy courses, including Aesthetics and the Philosophy and History of Art. Her research interests include philosophy of music and architecture, environmental aesthetics, and aesthetic judgment and imagination.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: How Ruins Acquire Aesthetic Value
Book Subtitle: Modern Ruins, Ruin Porn, and the Ruin Tradition
Authors: Tanya Whitehouse
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03065-0
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-03064-3Published: 12 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-03065-0Published: 30 November 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 122
Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations
Topics: Aesthetics, Urban History, Urbanism, Urban Studies/Sociology