Elemental Beauty: The Four Seasons and the Un-thought Aerial World
@ The Renaissance Society, Classics Building
1010 E 59th St, Room 110, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, March 28th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
On view through Wednesday, April 18th
In conjunction with our current exhibition, Unthought Environments, David Macauley presents a talk titled “Elemental Beauty: The Four Seasons and the Un-thought Aerial World.”
Working in the fields of both philosophy and environmental studies, Macauley has dug deeply into the ancient and perennial notion of “the four elements,” tracking them as ideas from early philosophical sources to the twenty-first century.
As one critic writes, Macauley’s book Elemental Philosophy “is an homage to a different and seemingly unfamiliar sensibility in which earth, air, fire and water… animate human thought and action.” Macauley’s ongoing work offers ways to reevaluate how we relate to the natural world and how aesthetics bring us back to environmental questions.
Free, open to the public, no booking required.
Co-sponsored by the Arts, Science + Culture Initiative at the University of Chicago.
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