We are pleased to announce CCP 16.3 is in production and will appear soon. This issue is being combined with CCP 16.1 and 16.2 and will be the last print version of the journal. CCP 16.3 is a special issue guest edited by Tanehisa Otabem, University of Tokyo, and Sean McGrath, Memorial University of Newfoundland, and focuses on the often-neglected field of aesthetics as a key to understanding the environmental crisis. The contents of this special issue include:
Editors’ Introduction
Tanehisa Otabe and Sean McGrath
A Dao-centric or Nature-centric Perspective on Human Environment: A Contribution from Modern Japanese Aesthetics
Tanehisa Otabe
The Relationship Between Humans and the Cosmos in Modern Chinese Aesthetics: A Comparative Study of Zhu Guangqian and Fang Dongmei
Yi Ding
The Concept of Landscape and Sustainability
Laura Fumagalli
Following Nature? The Transition from an Aesthetics of Nature to an Ethics of Nature in Schelling
Phillip Hoefele
The Eschatological Dimension of Natural Beauty in Post-Hegelian Critical Theory
Felix Treutner
Icon, Index, Symbol? Theorizing Eco-Aesthetic Encounters across Epistemes
Russell Duvernoy
Recognition of Land by Art: A Case Study of the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale
Sakura Yahata
Toxic Silence: Towards an Auditory Phenomenology of Polluted Environments
Christian Schnurr
The Relevance of the Beautiful to Our Ecological Crisis
Barry Stephenson
“This World Shares with Us One Fate and One Hope:” With Schelling’s Clara Towards an Environ-Mental Aesthetics for the Anthropocene?
Uwe Voigt
Historical Nature and the Body in Nishida’s Philosophies of Life and Art
Lucy Schultz
Nature as Symbol of God: A Cusanian Ecology
Sean McGrath