Good Life

Name: Good Life
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ISBN: 9780299105440

ISBN-10: 029910544X

ISBN-13: 9780299105440

Edition: 1986

Authors: Yi-Fu Tuan

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“[Tuan] explores answers to an old and unanswerable question: how should we live? . . . The Good Life is a little anthology of good feeling, touchstones of joy . . . These pleasures make the book a pleasure, not of conviction or belief, but of conversation’s meandering exploration.”—New York Times Book Review“Tuan, after all, is one of the few geographers who can be read for pleasure, and by the public as well as by the professional. But read not merely for pleasure, nor yet to mark, learn, and inwardly digest. Rather, consider Tuan’s challenge to identify your concept of the good life, and then try to construct that life.”—Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 3/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English




Introduction



Individual Experiences



Cultural Models I


Eden


Farm Life


Pastoral Nomadism


Hunters and Warriors



Cultural Models II


Comfort vs. Splendor


Bourgeois Interior


City



Stability and Continuity


Nature


Human Bonds


Tradition


Artifacts



Growth and Progress


Space


Community



Austerity and Truth


Simplicity and Freedom


Hard Truths


Bourgeois Sorrows


Urbanity: Defects of Excellence



Old Age and the Good Life


Dim Eyes, Clear Vision


Delusion and Hope


Poverty and Death



Summing Up


Notes


Index