Smell and anosmia in the aesthetic appreciation of gardens
In his 'Critique of the Power of Judgment', Kant defined the garden as a visual art and considered that smell plays no role in its aesthetic appreciation. If the Kantian thesis were right, then a person who has no sense of smell (who suffers from anosmia) would not be impaired in his or he...
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| Format: | article |
| Publication Date: | 2014 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repository: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Language: | English |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:188724 |
| Online Access: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/188724 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Aesthetic appreciation Anosmia Beauty David E. Cooper Form Garden Home Kant Meaning Mara Miller Smell Transience |
| Summary: | In his 'Critique of the Power of Judgment', Kant defined the garden as a visual art and considered that smell plays no role in its aesthetic appreciation. If the Kantian thesis were right, then a person who has no sense of smell (who suffers from anosmia) would not be impaired in his or her aesthetic appreciation of gardens. At the same time, a visually impaired person could not appreciate the beauty of gardens, although he or she could perceive them through hearing, smell, taste, and touch. In this paper I discuss the role of smell and anosmia in the aesthetic appreciation of gardens. I accept the Kantian idea that the appreciation of a garden is the appreciation of its form, but I also defend that, at least in some cases, smell can belong to the form of gardens and, consequently, the ability or inability to smell influences their aesthetic appreciation. |
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