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What essentially is a garden? Is it a small plot of land that we put aside to cultivate our favourite vegetables or to grow flowers for our personal enjoyment? Or is it a symbol, a mirror, a reflection of our human passions? Within the context of phenomenology/ontopoiesis-of-life, we find the significance of the garden inscribed within the web of the Human Condition, creatively unfurling its form from the vital basis to its loftiest swings of the period. The aesthetic synthesis of our passions is carried by the logoic promise of life - its infinite renewal and infinite response. The topic of the present volume is the mysterious ways in which Imaginatio Creatix plays within the human ingrowness in natural life, transposing dreams, nostalgias, and enchantments.

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Author:   Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
Volume:   78
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.533kg
ISBN:  

9789048161195

ISBN 10:   9048161193
Pages:   353
Publication Date:   30 December 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Theme: Gardens and the Passion for the Infinite.- Mirrors of Affectivity and Aesthetics: Gardens, Parks, and Landscapes as Seen by Theophile de Viau and la Fontaine.- Leonardo’s Annunciation Hortus Conclusus and its Reflexive Intent.- The Gardens of Versailles and the Sublime.- Gardens in Stoppard, Austen, and Goethe.- Approaching Zen Gardens: A Phenomenological-Anthropological Approach.- Hatha Yoga: A Phenomenological Experience of Nature.- In Search of Paradise: Gardens in Medieval French and Persian Poetry.- The Chinese Attempt to Miniaturize the World in Gardens.- Aesthetics of Ancient Indian Sylvan Colonies and Gardens: Tagore’s Reflexions.- Opera as a Mirror of the Infinite: The Triumph of the Human Spirit over Natural Forces in Riders to the Sea.- Late Modernity and La Villette: “Unsettling” the Object/Event Dialectic.- The Looking-Glass Self: Self-Objectivation through the Garden.- The Fourth Dimension of Art.- The Ruin Aesthetic: Constructing the Deconstructive Landscape.- Japanese Aesthetic Concepts and Phenomenological Inquiry.- The Wisdom of the Mirror in Cocteau’s Orphée.- She Looks in the Mirror: The Ideological Shift of the Feminine Gaze in the Film The French Lieutenant’s Woman.- The Phenomenological Flâneur and Robert Irwin’s “Phenomenological Garden” at the Getty Center.- The Dream of Ascent and the Noise of Earth: Paradoxical Inclinations in Euripides’s Bacchae, Shakespeare’s The Tempest, and Stevens’s “Of Modern Poetry”.- What Time Is It?: Subverting and Suppressing, Conflating and Compressing Time in Commodified Space and Architecture.- The Psychometaphor.- Index of Names.

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