Interpreting environments : tradition, deconstruction, hermeneutics /

In this pioneering book, Robert Mugerauer seeks to make deconstruction and hermeneutics understandable and useable for people in the environmental disciplines, including architecture, planning, urban studies, environmental studies, and cultural geography. He chooses case studies to demonstrate the u...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mugerauer, Robert
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 1995.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Human ecology > Philosophy.
Landscape assessment > Methodology.
Human geography > Philosophy.
Human geography > Methodology.
Cultural geography > Philosophy.
Écologie humaine > Philosophie.
Paysages > Évaluation > Méthodologie.
Géographie humaine > Philosophie.
Géographie humaine > Méthodologie.
Géographie sociale > Philosophie.
Géographie culturelle > Philosophie.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Humanökologie
Philosophie
Landschaftsbewertung
Methode
Anthropogeografie
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Traditional approaches: Wittgenstein's and jung's lives, work, and houses. Facing uncertain meanings and traditions
  • Wittgenstein's restlessness
  • Jung's quest for wholeness
  • Alternatives for contemporary existence
  • pt. 2. Deconstruction: pyramids as posture and strategy. Deconstructing pyramids
  • Egyptian pyramids
  • French neoclassic pyramids
  • Postmodern pyramids
  • pt. 3. Hermeneutic retrieval: American nature as paradise. America religiously understood
  • A natural paradise already given
  • Paradise promised: wilderness to be converted
  • Secular echoes in landscape architecture and environmental attitudes
  • The hidden and disclosure.

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