Dwelling, Place and Environment Towards a Phenomenology of Person and World
themes among the essays resurface and resonate. Though our request for essays was broad and open-ended, we found that topics such as seeing, authenticity, interpretation, wholeness, care, and dwelling ran as undercur rents throughout. Our major hope is that each essay plays a part in revealing a la...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1985, 1985
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1985 |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Dwelling, place and environment: An introduction
- I. Beginnings and directions
- 2. Geographical experiences and being-in-the-world: The phenomenological origins of geography
- 3. The quest for authenticity and the replication of environmental meaning
- 4. Language and the emergence of the environment
- 5. Place, body and situation
- II. Environment and place
- 6. Acoustic space
- 7. Bound to the environment: Towards a phenomenology of sightlessness
- 8. Towards revealing the sense of place: An intuitive “reading” of four Dalmatian towns
- 9. The circle and the cross: Loric and sacred space in the holy wells of Ireland
- 10. Many dwellings: Views of a Pueblo world
- 11. A phenomenological approach to architecture and its teaching in the design studio
- III. Place and dwelling
- 12. The dwelling door: Towards a phenomenology of transition
- 13. Body, house and city: The intertwinings of embodiment, inhabitation and civilization
- 14. Reconciling old and new worlds: The dwelling-journey relationship as portrayed in Vilhelm Moberg’s “Emigrant” novels
- 15. The role of spiritual discipline in learning to dwell on earth
- IV. Discovering wholes
- 16. Nature, water symbols and the human quest for wholeness
- 17. Counterfeit and authentic wholes: Finding a means for dwelling in nature
- The contributors