A Philosophy of Gardens.
Title:
A Philosophy of Gardens.
Author:
Cooper, David E.
ISBN:
9780191516139
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (184 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- List of Illustrations -- 1. Taking Gardens Seriously -- 'A Fundamental Question' -- Philosophers in the Garden -- What is a Garden? -- 2. Art or Nature? -- Two Models -- The Garden as Art -- The Garden as Nature -- 3. Art-and-Nature? -- Factorizing -- Phenomenology and 'Atmosphere' -- Relevance, Identity, and Holism -- 4. Gardens, People, and Practices -- 'Gardens are for People' -- Gardening -- Other Garden-practices -- 5. Gardens and the Good Life -- 'The Good Life' -- Virtues of the Garden -- Some Garden Vices? -- 6. The Meanings of Gardens -- Meaning -- Modes of Garden Meaning -- 'The Meaning of the Garden' -- 7. The Garden as Epiphany -- Symbol and Epiphany -- A Modest Proposal -- A Further Proposal -- Coda -- 8. Conclusion: The Garden's Distinction -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
Why do gardens matter so much and mean so much to people? That is the intriguing question to which David Cooper seeks an answer in this book. Given the enthusiasm for gardens in human civilization ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, it is surprising that the question has been so long neglected by modern philosophy. Now at last there is a philosophy of gardens. David Cooper identifies garden appreciation as a special human phenomenon distinct from both from the appreciation of art and the appreciation of nature. He discusses the contribution of gardening and other garden-related pursuits to 'the good life'. And he distinguishes the many kinds of meanings that gardens may have, from their representation of nature to their spiritual significance. A Philosophy of Gardens will open up this subject to students and scholars of aesthetics, ethics, and cultural and environmental studies, and to anyone with a reflective interest in things horticultural.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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