<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> The article presents dialogic attitude towards nature and focuses on the aesthetic form of interaction with environment via folklore and imaginative writing. The article analyzes the development of scientific thought from human ecology to environmental hermeneutics. Hermeneutic methodology is used in the field of “aesthetics of nature”, therefore, the author applies hermeneutic categories such as tradition, historically effective consciousness, hermeneutic circle, application to cultural heritage of one of Siberia’s natives and proves the advantages, heuristic value of these categories in analyzing dialogue with nature. Aesthetic dialogue with nature is studied on the example of ethnic and ecological traditions of the Buryat nomads, who historically migrated across Central Asia, nowadays live around Lake Baikal. The author argues that revitalizing ethnic and ecological traditions in folklore and contemporary national literature presents a hermeneutic dialogue with nature and considers it a valuable resource for ethical assumptions and ecological education for sustainable development.</p></abstract>

The article presents dialogic attitude towards nature and focuses on the aesthetic form of interaction with environment via folklore and imaginative writing. The article analyzes the development of scientific thought from human ecology to environmental hermeneutics. Hermeneutic methodology is used in the field of “aesthetics of nature”, therefore, the author applies hermeneutic categories such as tradition, historically effective consciousness, hermeneutic circle, application to cultural heritage of one of Siberia’s natives and proves the advantages, heuristic value of these categories in analyzing dialogue with nature. Aesthetic dialogue with nature is studied on the example of ethnic and ecological traditions of the Buryat nomads, who historically migrated across Central Asia, nowadays live around Lake Baikal. The author argues that revitalizing ethnic and ecological traditions in folklore and contemporary national literature presents a hermeneutic dialogue with nature and considers it a valuable resource for ethical assumptions and ecological education for sustainable development.

Environmental Hermeneutics: Ethnic and Ecological Traditions in Aesthetic Dialogue with Nature

Buryat State University, Smolina 24, 670000, Ulan-Ude, Russia

Journal of Landscape Ecology

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The article presents dialogic attitude towards nature and focuses on the aesthetic form of interaction with environment via folklore and imaginative writing....

Environmental Hermeneutics: Ethnic and Ecological Traditions in Aesthetic Dialogue with Nature

Publicado en línea: 06 jul 2016

Páginas: 22 - 35

Recibido: 04 feb 2016

Aceptado: 11 abr 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jlecol-2016-0002

Palabras clave
nature, aesthetic dialogue, environmental hermeneutics, environmental ethics, ethnic and ecological traditions, the Buryats, nomadic culture

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Environmental Hermeneutics: Ethnic and Ecological Traditions in Aesthetic Dialogue with Nature

Publicado en línea: 06 jul 2016

Páginas: 22 - 35

Recibido: 04 feb 2016

Aceptado: 11 abr 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jlecol-2016-0002

Palabras clavenature, aesthetic dialogue, environmental hermeneutics, environmental ethics, ethnic and ecological traditions, the Buryats, nomadic culture

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Palabras clave
nature, aesthetic dialogue, environmental hermeneutics, environmental ethics, ethnic and ecological traditions, the Buryats, nomadic culture