1st Edition
The German Mittelweg Garden Theory and Philosophy in the Time of Kant
By Michael G. Lee
Copyright 2007
348 Pages
by
Routledge
348 Pages
by
Routledge
348 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the 1790s, a close-knit group of German philosophers published several garden theory texts. These works are unique in that a close-knit group of philosophers had never before--and has not since--produced so many works on the topic of garden design. In essence, this cohort sought to imbue the most visionary concepts that had been inherited from the German garden tradition with the... Read more
Contents -- List of Figures Acknowledgments -- Chapter One - Introduction: Garden Theory as Topographical Thought -- Chapter Two - The Garden in the Academy -- Chapter Three - The Semiotics of Strolling: Karl Heinrich Heydenreich (I) -- Chapter Four - The Legibility of Agency: Karl Heinrich Heydenreich (II) -- Chapter Five - The Historical Narrative of Mediation: Friedrich Schiller -- Chapter Six - The Background of Discourse -- Chapter Seven - Architectonics and Topographics Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Biography
Michael G. Lee
