Gardens

Name: Gardens
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226317908
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An Essay on the Human Condition

Автор: Robert Pogue Harrison

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: The University of Chicago Press

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Humans have long turned to gardens - both real and imaginary - for sanctuary from the frenzy and tum...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Robert Pogue Harrison

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2009

страници

264

EAN

9780226317908

ISBN

0226317900

Enbook ID

04545651

Издател

The University of Chicago Press

Теглоt

336

Размери

139 x 214 x 17

Пълно описание

Humans have long turned to gardens - both real and imaginary - for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. With "Gardens", Robert Pogue Harrison graces readers with a thoughtful, wide-ranging examination of the many ways gardens evoke the human condition. Moving from the gardens of ancient philosophers to the gardens of homeless people in contemporary New York, he shows how, again and again, the garden has served as a check against the destruction and losses of history. Alive with the echoes and arguments of Western thought, "Gardens" is a fitting continuation of the intellectual journeys of Harrison's earlier classics, "Forests" and "The Dominion of the Dead". Voltaire famously urged us to cultivate our gardens; with this compelling volume, Harrison reminds us of the nature of that responsibility - and its enduring importance to humanity.

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