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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. It 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 and 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. Thinking Through Landscape 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. The book argues that this gave rise to a
theoretical and literary appreciation of landscape at the expense
of an effective practical engagement with nature. It draws on
Heideggerian ontology and Veblen's sociology, providing 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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