Symbolic Landscapes presents a definitive collection of
landscape/place studies that explores symbolic, cultural levels of
geographical meanings. Essays written by philosophers, geographers,
architects, social scientists, art historians, and literati, bring
specific modes of expertise and perspectives to this
transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary study of the symbolic level
human existential spatiality. Placing emphasis on the pre-cognitive
genesis of symbolic meaning, as well as embodied, experiential
(lived) geography, the volume offers a fresh,
quasi-phenomenological approach. The editors articulate the
epistemological doctrine that perception and imagination form a
continuum in which both are always implicated as complements. This
approach makes a case for the interrelation of the geography of
perception and the geography of imagination, which means that
human/cultural geography offers only an abstraction if indeed an
aesthetic geography is constituted merely as a sub-field.
Human/cultural geography can only approach spatial reality through
recognizing the intimate interrelative dialectic between the
imaginative and perceptual meanings of our landscapes/place-worlds.
This volume reinvigorates the importance of the topic of symbolism
in human/cultural geography, landscape studies, philosophy of
place, architecture and planning, and will stand among the classics
in the field.
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