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Though best known for his superlative poetry and plays, Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) also produced a sizable body of
scientific work that focused on such diverse topics as plants,
color, clouds, weather, and geology. Goethe's way of science is
highly unusual because it seeks to draw together the intuitive
awareness of art with the rigorous observation and thinking of
science. Written by major scholars and practitioners of Goethean
science today, this book considers the philosophical foundations of
Goethe's approach and applies the method to the real world of
nature, including studies of plants, animals, and the movement of
water.
Part I discusses the philosophical foundations of the approach
and clarifies its epistemology and methodology; Part II applies the
method to the real world of nature; and Part III examines the
future of Goethean science and emphasizes its great value for
better understanding and caring for the natural environment.
Phenomenological Perspectives on Place, Lifeworlds and Lived
Emplacement is a compilation of fifteen previously published
articles and chapters by David Seamon, one of the foremost
researchers in environmental, architectural, and place
phenomenology. These entries discuss such topics as body-subject,
the lived body, place ballets, environmental serendipity,
homeworlds, and the pedagogy of place and place making. The fifteen
chapters are broken into three parts. Part I includes four entries
that consider what phenomenology offers studies of place and place
making. These chapters illustrate the theoretical and practical
value of phenomenological concepts like lifeworld, natural
attitude, and bodily actions in place. Part II incorporates five
chapters that aim to understand place and lived emplacement
phenomenologically. Topics covered include environmental
situatedness, architectural phenomenology, environmental
serendipity, and the value of phenomenology for a pedagogy of place
and place making. Part III presents six explications of real-world
places and place experience, drawing on examples from photography
(Andre Kertesz's Meudon), television (Alan Ball's Six Feet Under),
film (John Sayles' Limbo and Sunshine State), and imaginative
literature (Doris Lessing's The Four-Gated City and Louis
Bromfield's The World We Live in). Seamon is a major figure in
environment-behavior research, particularly as that work has
applied value for design professionals. This volume will be of
interest to geographers, environmental psychologists, architects,
planners, policymakers and other researchers and practitioners
concerned with place, place experience, place meaning, and place
making.
Life Takes Place argues that, even in our mobile, hypermodern
world, human life is impossible without place. Seamon asks the
question: why does life take place? He draws on examples of
specific places and place experiences to understand place more
broadly. Advocating for a holistic way of understanding that he
calls "synergistic relationality," Seamon defines places as spatial
fields that gather, activate, sustain, identify, and interconnect
things, human beings, experiences, meanings, and events. Throughout
his phenomenological explication, Seamon recognizes that places are
multivalent in their constitution and sophisticated in their
dynamics. Drawing on British philosopher J. G. Bennett's method of
progressive approximation, he considers place and place experience
in terms of their holistic, dialectical, and processual dimensions.
Recognizing that places always change over time, Seamon examines
their processual dimension by identifying six generative processes
that he labels interaction, identity, release, realization,
intensification, and creation. Drawing on practical examples from
architecture, planning, and urban design, he argues that an
understanding of these six place processes might contribute to a
more rigorous place making that produces robust places and propels
vibrant environmental experiences. This book is a significant
contribution to the growing research literature in "place and place
making studies."
Within the modern Western lifestyle increasing conflict is becoming
apparent between that patchwork of isolated points such as the home
or the office, which are linked by a mechanical system of
transportation and communication devices, and a growing sense of
homelessness and isolation. This work, first published in 1979,
adopts a phenomenological perspective illustrating that this
malaise may have partial roots in the deepening rupture between
people and place. Whereas the problems of terrestrial space may
have been overcome technologically and economically, it has been
less successful regarding people. Experience indicates that people
become bound to locality, and the quality of their life is thus
reduced if these bonds are disrupted or broken in any way. The
relationship between community and place is investigated, as is the
opportunity for improving the environment, both from a human and an
ecological perspective. This book will be of interest to students
of human geography.
Humanistic geography is one of the major emerging themes which has
recently dominated geographic writing. Anne Buttimer has been one
of the leading figures in the rise of humanistic geography, and the
research students she collected round her at Clark University in
the 1970s constituted something of a 'school' of humanistic
geographers. This school developed a significantly new style of
geographical inquiry, giving special emphasis to people's
experience of place, space and environment and often using
philosophical and subjective methodology. This collection of
essays, first published in 1980, brings together this school and
offers insight into philosophical and practical issues concerning
the human experience of environments. An extensive range of topics
are discussed, and the aim throughout is to weave analytical and
critical thought into a more comprehensive understanding of lived
experience. This book will be of interest to students of human
geography.
Within the modern Western lifestyle increasing conflict is becoming
apparent between that patchwork of isolated points such as the home
or the office, which are linked by a mechanical system of
transportation and communication devices, and a growing sense of
homelessness and isolation. This work, first published in 1979,
adopts a phenomenological perspective illustrating that this
malaise may have partial roots in the deepening rupture between
people and place. Whereas the problems of terrestrial space may
have been overcome technologically and economically, it has been
less successful regarding people. Experience indicates that people
become bound to locality, and the quality of their life is thus
reduced if these bonds are disrupted or broken in any way. The
relationship between community and place is investigated, as is the
opportunity for improving the environment, both from a human and an
ecological perspective. This book will be of interest to students
of human geography.
Humanistic geography is one of the major emerging themes which has
recently dominated geographic writing. Anne Buttimer has been one
of the leading figures in the rise of humanistic geography, and the
research students she collected round her at Clark University in
the 1970s constituted something of a 'school' of humanistic
geographers. This school developed a significantly new style of
geographical inquiry, giving special emphasis to people's
experience of place, space and environment and often using
philosophical and subjective methodology. This collection of
essays, first published in 1980, brings together this school and
offers insight into philosophical and practical issues concerning
the human experience of environments. An extensive range of topics
are discussed, and the aim throughout is to weave analytical and
critical thought into a more comprehensive understanding of lived
experience. This book will be of interest to students of human
geography.
themes among the essays resurface and resonate. Though our request
for essays was broad and open-ended, we found that topics such as
seeing, authenticity, interpretation, wholeness, care, and dwelling
ran as undercur rents throughout. Our major hope is that each essay
plays a part in revealing a larger whole of meaning which says much
about a more humane relation ship with places, environments and the
earth as our home. Part I. Beginnings and directions At the start,
we recognize the tremendous debt this volume owes to philosopher
Martin Heidegger (1890-1976), whose ontological excavations into
the nature of human existence and meaning provide the philosophical
foundations for many of the essays, particularly those in Part I of
the volume. Above all else, Heidegger was regarded by his students
and colleagues as a master teacher. He not only thought deeply but
was also able to show others how to think and to question. Since
he, perhaps more than anyone else in this century, provides the
instruction for dOing a phenomenology and hermeneutic of humanity's
existential situation, he is seminal for phenomenological and
hermeneutical research in the environmental disci plines. He
presents in his writings what conventional scholarly work,
especially the scientific approach, lacks; he helps us to evoke and
under stand things through a method that allows them to come forth
as they are; he provides a new way to speak about and care for our
human nature and environment."
Life Takes Place argues that, even in our mobile, hypermodern
world, human life is impossible without place. Seamon asks the
question: why does life take place? He draws on examples of
specific places and place experiences to understand place more
broadly. Advocating for a holistic way of understanding that he
calls "synergistic relationality," Seamon defines places as spatial
fields that gather, activate, sustain, identify, and interconnect
things, human beings, experiences, meanings, and events. Throughout
his phenomenological explication, Seamon recognizes that places are
multivalent in their constitution and sophisticated in their
dynamics. Drawing on British philosopher J. G. Bennett's method of
progressive approximation, he considers place and place experience
in terms of their holistic, dialectical, and processual dimensions.
Recognizing that places always change over time, Seamon examines
their processual dimension by identifying six generative processes
that he labels interaction, identity, release, realization,
intensification, and creation. Drawing on practical examples from
architecture, planning, and urban design, he argues that an
understanding of these six place processes might contribute to a
more rigorous place making that produces robust places and propels
vibrant environmental experiences. This book is a significant
contribution to the growing research literature in "place and place
making studies."
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