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The German Mittelweg - Garden Theory and Philosophy in the Time of Kant (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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The German Mittelweg - Garden Theory and Philosophy in the Time of Kant (Hardcover, annotated edition)
Series: Studies in Philosophy
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In the 1790s, a close-knit group of German philosophers published
several garden theory texts. These works are unique in that a
close-knit group of philosophers had never before--and has not
since--produced so many works on the topic of garden design. In
essence, this cohort sought to imbue the most visionary concepts
that had been inherited from the German garden tradition with the
intellectual resources that were newly available through Kant's
critical philosophy. The most important of these concepts was the
prescription for a new Mittelweg, or "middle path," garden that
would mediate between the perceived excesses of French formalism
and the English picturesque. In close analysis, the author
demonstrates that Kant used similar "middle path" techniques in the
design of his own "critical path" between dogmatism and skepticism.
This similarity is most apparent when he uses topographical
metaphors to describe the organizational principles of his system.
By interpreting Kant's topographical metaphors in relation to
contemporary garden theories, this book offers new insights into
the structural similarities between his "critical path" and the
German garden's "middle path" between French formalism and the
English picturesque.
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