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- Title
The Soft Side of Stone: Notes for a Phenomenology of Stone.
- Authors
Berleant, Arnold
- Abstract
Stone represents the firmness and intransigence of the world within which we live and act. But beyond the perception and appropriations of stone, diverse meanings lie hidden between the hardness of stone and its uses. At the same time meaning must be grounded in the stabilizing presence of a common world. Yet if all that can be said is not about stone simpliciter but only an aesthetics of its perception, uses, and meanings, have we not gained the whole world but lost its reality? The underlying issue is therefore not aesthetic but ontological.
- Publication
Environmental Philosophy, 2007, Vol 4, Issue 1/2, p49
- ISSN
1718-0198
- Publication type
Academic Journal