Nature as landscape : dwelling and understanding / Kraft E. von Maltzahn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Von Maltzahn, Kraft E. (Kraft Eberhard), 1925-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology--Philosophy.

Human ecology.

Nature and nurture.

Physical Description:

x, 149 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Von Maltzahn focuses on how we experience aspects of nature in terms of their outer appearance, such as landscape, and contends that the naturalistic scientific tradition has taught us to divorce ourselves from the natural world, to become impartial observers rather than participants. He examines the nature of the human life-world and describes the process of self-deception that has led to the contemporary dismissal of that life-world as merely subjective. Drawing on phenomenology, semiotics, visual thinking, gestalt psychology, and Polanyi's arguments about tacit knowing, he offers an alternative way of perceiving the natural world that would reunite humans and nature. Given the current state of the global environment, it is crucial that the debate on the relationship of human beings and nature take place on many levels.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Figures

Preface

Introduction

The Objective Interpretation of Nature

Human Beings and Nature in the Mythological World

The Interpretation of Humankind

The Historical Nature of Humankind and the Contemporary Technological Order

Nature and Culture, I

The Biological World

The Life-World, I

The Life-World, 2

Visual Thinking and Tacit Knowing

Nature and Culture, 2

Nature as Landscape

Construction of a World

Conclusion

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [131]-143) and index.

ISBN:

0-7735-6502-7

OCLC:

929121436