Gardens : An Essay on the Human Condition

Robert Pogue Harrison

277 évaluations par Goodreads

Langue : anglais

Edité par University Of Chicago Press, 2008

0226317897 / 9780226317892

Vendeur : Library House Internet Sales, Grand Rapids, OH, Etats-UnisLibrary House Internet Sales

Vendeur avec une évaluation de 5 étoiles

Vendeur AbeBooks depuis 3 février 2014

Afficher les articles de ce vendeur
Livre relié

Etat: Occasion - Satisfaisant

EUR 3,11

EUR 6,02 expédition 
Expédition nationale : Etats-Unis

Quantité disponible : 1 disponible(s)

Ajouter au panier
Retours gratuits sous 30 jours

Item description from seller

Humans have long turned to gardens%u2014both real and imaginary%u2014for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. Those gardens may be as far away from everyday reality as Gilgamesh%u2019s garden of the gods or as near as our own backyard, but in their very conception and the marks they bear of human care and cultivation, gardens stand as restorative, nourishing, necessary havens. With Gardens, Robert Pogue Harrison graces readers with a thoughtful, wide-ranging examination of the many ways gardens evoke the human condition. Moving from from the gardens of ancient philosophers to the gardens of homeless people in contemporary New York, he shows how, again and again, the garden has served as a check against the destruction and losses of history. The ancients, explains Harrison, viewed gardens as both a model and a location for the laborious self-cultivation and self-improvement that are essential to serenity and enlightenment, an association that has continued throughout the ages. The Bible and Qur%u2019an; Plato%u2019s Academy and Epicurus%u2019s Garden School; Zen rock and Islamic carpet gardens; Boccaccio, Rihaku, Capek, Cao Xueqin, Italo Calvino, Ariosto, Michel Tournier, and Hannah Arendt%u2014all come into play as this work explores the ways in which the concept and reality of the garden has informed human thinking about mortality, order, and power. Alive with the echoes and arguments of Western thought, Gardens is a fitting continuation of the intellectual journeys of Harrison%u2019s earlier classics, Forests and The Dominion of the Dead. Voltaire famously urged us to cultivate our gardens; with this compelling volume, Robert Pogue Harrison reminds us of the nature of that responsibility%u2014and its enduring importance to humanity. "I find myself completely besotted by a new book titled Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition, by Robert Pogue Harrison. The author . . . is one of the very best cultural critics at work today. He is a man of deep learning, immense generosity of spirit, passionate curiosity and manifold rhetorical gifts."%u2014Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune "This book is about gardens as a metaphor for the human condition. . . . Harrison draws freely and with brilliance from 5,000 years of Western literature and criticism, including works on philosophy and garden history. . . . He is a careful as well as an inspiring scholar."%u2014Tom Turner, Times Higher Education "When I was a student, my Cambridge supervisor said, in the Olympian tone characteristic of his kind, that the only living literary critics for whom he would sell his shirt were William Empson and G. Wilson Knight. Having spent the subsequent 30 years in the febrile world of academic Lit. Crit. . . . I%u2019m not sure that I%u2019d sell my shirt for any living critic. But if there had to be one, it would unquestionably be Robert Pogue Harrison, whose study Forests: The Shadow of Civilization, published in 1992, has the true quality of literature, not of criticism%u2014it stays with you, like an amiable ghost, long after you read it. %u201CThough more modest in scope, this new book is similarly destined to become a classic. It has two principal heroes: the ancient philosopher Epicurus . . . and the wonderfully witty Czech writer Karel Capek, apropos of whom it is remarked that, whereas most people believe gardening to be a subset of life, %u2018gardeners, including Capek, understand that life is a subset of gardening.%u2019%u201D%u2014Jonathan Bate, The Spectator Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Former library book. Mylar protector included. Solid binding. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item.

N° de réf. du vendeur 123783822

Titre
Gardens : An Essay on the Human Condition
Auteur
Robert Pogue Harrison
Éditeur
University Of Chicago Press
Année de publication
2008
État de l'article
Good
Jaquette
Good
Type de livre
Ex-Library
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0226317897
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780226317892

Library House Internet Sales

Grand Rapids, OH, Etats-Unis

Vendeur avec une évaluation de 5 étoiles

Vendeur AbeBooks depuis 3 février 2014

Frais d'expédition à l'intérieur de ce pays : Etats-Unis

Article5 à 14 jours ouvrés3 à 6 jours ouvrés
Premier articleEUR 6,02EUR 9,90
Les délais de livraison sont fixés par les vendeurs et varient en fonction du transporteur et du lieu. Les commandes transitant par les douanes peuvent être retardées et les acheteurs sont responsables de tous les droits ou frais associés. Les vendeurs peuvent vous contacter au sujet de frais supplémentaires afin de couvrir toute augmentation des coûts d'expédition de vos articles.

Modes de paiement

  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • American Express
  • Carte Bleue
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay

Profil professionnel du vendeur

Library House Books and Art

24164 Front St.
Grand Rapids, OH Etats-Unis 43522