Rendezvous with the Sensuous

Readings on Aesthetics

Edited By: John Murungi

£44.99

In Rendezvous with the Sensuous, explore the aesthetic experience where human sensuousness combines with that of nature. Where artistic expression coalesces with the natural world, you are invited on a synesthetic journey to appreciate the role of aesthetics.

In Rendezvous with the Sensuous readers are drawn to, and become situated within, the dynamic place of the aesthetic experience. While there, human sensuousness comes…

In Rendezvous with the Sensuous readers are drawn to, and become situated within, the dynamic place of the aesthetic experience. While there, human sensuousness comes into relief as it combines with the sensuousness that derives from nature. In this complex place where artistic expression coalesces with the natural world, readers are extended an invitation to share in the journey of a richly diverse synesthetic experience and to gain a greater appreciation of the important place of the sensuous in illuminating the role of aesthetics in the world of ideas.

Linda Ardito, PhD, is Professor of Music at Dowling College. Her extensive writings on subjects in the arts and humanities include book chapters in Creativity: Fostering, Measuring and Contexts and Symbolic Landscapes; entries in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians; The Grove Dictionary of American Music; and the Encyclopedia of Education and Human Development; and journal articles in Skepsis; International Journal of Musicology; Ionia Publications; Forum Italicum; and Perspectives of New Music.

John Murungi, PhD, is a Professor of Philosophy at Towson University. He is the author of African Musical Aesthetics and An Introduction to Africa Legal Philosophy, and has also co-edited several books, including Symbolic Landscapes and Ecoscapes. He is the Co-founder of the International Association for the Study of Environment, Space, and Place, and is the Founder of Geo-aesthetics Conference Series.