Patrick Geddes’s Intellectual Origins / Murdo Macdonald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Macdonald, Murdo, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geddes, Patrick, Sir, 1854-1932.

Geddes, Patrick.

City planners--Great Britain--Biography.

City planners.

Sociologists--Great Britain--Biography.

Sociologists.

Ecologists--Great Britain--Biography.

Ecologists.

Scotland--Intellectual life--19th century.

Scotland.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The intellectual background and cultural legacy of Patrick GeddesExplores Patrick Geddes’s Scottish intellectual background in depth for the first time, drawing on George Davie’s notion of the democratic intellectHighlights his insistence on the interdisciplinary importance of arts and sciences Considers his achievements from his pioneering work in Edinburgh and Dundee and his leadership of the Celtic revival, to his influence in Paris, London and IndiaPatrick Geddes is one of Scotland’s most remarkable thinkers of the late 19th and early 20th century. His environmental and cultural message endures today, but until now the Scottish context to his thinking has not been properly acknowledged. This book changes that, situating Geddes within a distinctly Scottish intellectual background, and exploring his substantial national and international advocacy of art, architecture, ecology, literature, planning, geography and Celtic studies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Preface

Acknowledgements

1 Patrick Geddes and the Scottish Intellectual Tradition

2 Geography, History and Place

3 Arts, Crafts and Social Reform

4 Patrick Geddes, D’Arcy Thompson and the Early Years of University College Dundee

5 Education, Anarchism and Celtic Revival in Edinburgh

6 Manifestos in Word and Image

7 Models of Celticism

8 Interdisciplinarity and Cultural Revival

9 Paris 1900: Local Revival as Global Project

10 City Development as Interdisciplinary Project

11 Ecological Research in Dundee

12 Dramatising the Past and Informing the Future

13 Looking East

14 A Farewell Lecture

Notes

Appendix 1 Patrick Geddes: A Visual Primer in Ten Images

Appendix 2 List of Murdo Macdonald’s Writings relating to Patrick Geddes and his Milieu

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781474454094

1474454097

OCLC:

1312726316