The key role that animals play in our aesthetic appreciation of the natural world has only gradually been highlighted in discussions in environmental aesthetics. In this paper I make use of the phenomenological notion of ‘perceptual sense’ as developed by Merleau-Ponty to argue that open-ended expressive-responsive movement is the primary aesthetic ground for our appreciation of animals. It is through their movement that the array of qualities we admire in animals are manifest qua animal qualities. Against functionalist and formalist accounts, I defend and develop an account of expressive-responsive movement as the primary perceptual sense of animals. I go on to suggest that the primacy of movement in aesthetic appreciation of animals is also the primary sense of animal ‘wildness’ and that a key part of the rewilding paradigm should be the development of such appreciation.

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运动、野性和动物美学

动物在我们对自然世界的审美欣赏中所起的关键作用在环境美学的讨论中才逐渐得到强调。在本文中，我利用梅洛-庞蒂发展的“知觉”现象学概念来论证开放式表达反应运动是我们欣赏动物的主要审美基础。正是通过它们的运动，我们欣赏动物的一系列品质才成为动物品质的体现。反对功能主义和形式主义的说法，我捍卫并发展了一种将表达反应运动作为动物主要知觉的解释。