Gardens and the Passion for the Infinite

Name: Gardens and the Passion for the Infinite
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ISBN: 9781402008580

ISBN-10: 1402008589

ISBN-13: 9781402008580

Edition: 2003

Authors: Fine Arts International Society for Phenomenology, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

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What essentially is a garden? Is it a small plot of land that we put aside to cultivate our favourite vegetables or to grow flowers for our personal enjoyment? Or is it a symbol, a mirror, a reflection of our human passions? Within the context of phenomenology/ontopoiesis-of-life, we find the significance of the garden inscribed within the web of the Human Condition, creatively unfurling its form from the vital basis to its loftiest swings of the period. The aesthetic synthesis of our passions is carried by the logoic promise of life - its infinite renewal and infinite response. The topic of the present volume is the mysterious ways in which Imaginatio Creatix plays within the human…

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List price: $169.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Publication date: 1/31/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 353
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.78" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.562



Acknowledgments


Theme: Gardens and the Passion for the Infinite



Mirrors of Affectivity and Aesthetics: Gardens, Parks, and Landscapes as Seen by Theophile de Viau and la Fontaine



Leonardo's Annunciation Hortus Conclusus and its Reflexive Intent



The Gardens of Versailles and the Sublime



Gardens in Stoppard, Austen, and Goethe



Approaching Zen Gardens: A Phenomenological-Anthropological Approach



Hatha Yoga: A Phenomenological Experience of Nature



In Search of Paradise: Gardens in Medieval French and Persian Poetry



The Chinese Attempt to Miniaturize the World in Gardens



Aesthetics of Ancient Indian Sylvan Colonies and Gardens: Tagore's Reflexions



Opera as a Mirror of the Infinite: The Triumph of the Human Spirit over Natural Forces in Riders to the Sea



Late Modernity and La Villette: "Unsettling" the Object/Event Dialectic



The Looking-Glass Self: Self-Objectivation through the Garden



The Fourth Dimension of Art



The Ruin Aesthetic: Constructing the Deconstructive Landscape



Japanese Aesthetic Concepts and Phenomenological Inquiry



The Wisdom of the Mirror in Cocteau's Orphee



She Looks in the Mirror: The Ideological Shift of the Feminine Gaze in the Film The French Lieutenant's Woman



The Phenomenological Flaneur and Robert Irwin's "Phenomenological Garden" at the Getty Center



The Dream of Ascent and the Noise of Earth: Paradoxical Inclinations in Euripides's Bacchae, Shakespeare's The Tempest, and Stevens's "Of Modern Poetry"



What Time Is It?: Subverting and Suppressing, Conflating and Compressing Time in Commodified Space and Architecture



The Psychometaphor



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