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The German "Mittelweg" : garden theory and philosophy in the time of Kant / Michael G. Lee.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lee, Michael G., 1962-
- Series:
- Studies in philosophy (New York, N.Y.)
- Studies in philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy, German--18th century.
- Philosophy, German.
- Gardens--Philosophy.
- Gardens.
- Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.
- Kant, Immanuel.
- Heydenreich, Karl Heinrich, 1764-1801.
- Heydenreich, Karl Heinrich.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 335 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, [2007]
- Summary:
- . By interpreting Kants topographical metaphors in relation to contemporary garden theories, this book offers new insights into the structural similarities between his critical path and the German gardens middle path between French formalism and the English picturesque.
- Contents:
- Introduction: garden theory as topographical thought
- The garden in the academy
- The semiotics of strolling : Karl Heinrich Heydenreich (I)
- The legibility of agency : Karl Heinrich Heydenreich (II)
- The historical narrative of mediation : Friedrich Schiller
- The background of discourse
- Architectonics and topographics.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-313) and index.
- ISBN:
- 041597674X
- 9780415976749
- OCLC:
- 72698516
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