The concept of territory and its meaning for philosophy and aesthetics

Abstract

The article deals with two traditions in philosophy that approach the concept of territory. The first traces its origin to Kant, while the second is that of schizoanalysis. The first tradition treats the concept of territory in its connection with the distinction processes, namely it distinguishes two zones: transcendental field and empirical zone, and it accepts no confusion. The second tradition treats the concept of territory as the process of movement of the limits of zones. The two traditions influenced the ecological aesthetics. To prove it the article discusses the role of the concept in aesthetics, with three approaches to understanding the sensibility being determined, one approach is linked with the ecological aesthetics. This approach considers the territory as a surrounding space. The idea of the space becomes a guiding idea for ecological aesthetics.

Keywords:

aesthetics, ecological aesthetics, sensibility, space, territory