Landscapes are the skin of the Earth: they reflect the environmental and cultural well-being of human communities, especially in an age of climate crisis. Focusing on Perus Huancavelica region, this book affirms the philosophical value of Andean cosmovision, challenging dominant aesthetic paradigms shaped by tourism and media. The book advances an original onto-phenomenological theory of landscape, bridging prevailing spatial models with insights from diverse disciplines in a transdisciplinary and innovative framework.
Paolo Furia, Ph.D. (2017), University of Torino, is Assistant Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Torino. He has published monographs in Italian, including Spaesamento. Esperienza estetico-geografica (2023), many peer-reviewed articles, and contributions in edited volumes on the relationship between aesthetics and geography. In 2023 he was a visiting professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in Lima (PUCP), at the Universidad Nacional de Huancavelica (UNH) and at the Universidad para el Desarrollo Andino in Lircay (UDEA). In 2024 he was a visiting professor at the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (Guangzhou, China).
