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Thinking through Landscape (Hardcover)
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Thinking through Landscape (Hardcover)
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Our attitude to nature has changed over time. This book explores
the historical, literary and philosophical origins of the changes
in our attitude to nature that allowed environmental catastrophes
to happen.The book presents a philosophical reflection on human
societies' attitude to the environment, informed by the history of
the concept of landscape and the role played by the concept of
nature in the human imagination. It features a wealth of examples
from around the world to help understand the contemporary
environmental crisis in the context of both the built and natural
environment. Berque locates the start of this change in human
labour and urban elites being cut off from nature. Nature became an
imaginary construct masking our real interaction with the natural
world. He argues that this gave rise to a theoretical and literary
appreciation of landscape at the expense of an effective practical
engagement with nature. This mindset is a general feature of the
world's civilizations, manifested in similar ways in different
cultures across Europe, China, North Africa and Australia. Yet this
approach did not have disastrous consequences until the advent of
western industrialization. As a phenomenological hermeneutics of
human societies' environmental relation to nature, the book draws
on Heideggerian ontology and Veblen's sociology. It provides a
powerful distinction between two attitudes to landscape: the tacit
knowledge of earlier peoples engaged in creating the landscape
through their work - "landscaping thought"- and the explicit
theoretical and aesthetic attitudes of modern city dwellers who
love nature while belonging to a civilization that destroys the
landscape - "landscape thinking". This book gives a critical survey
of landscape thought and theory for students, researchers and
anyone interested in human societies' relation to nature in the
fields of landscape studies, environmental philosophy, cultural
geography and environmental history.
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