Editors:
- Covers a wide-range of examples or cases
- Contributes to a widely-respected, but under-published area of human/cultural geography as well as the growing interest in place across the disciplines
- Makes a case for the study of symbolism as essential to landscape/place studies
- Offers a lived-geography (experiential) component that heightens interest
- Develops new ways to approach symbolism through an interdisciplinary focus
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Places—Worlds
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Geographical Sensibilities in the Arts
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Back Matter
About this book
Symbolic Landscapes presents a definitive collection of landscape/place studies that explores symbolic, cultural levels of geographical meanings. Essays written by philosophers, geographers, architects, social scientists, art historians, and literati, bring specific modes of expertise and perspectives to this transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary study of the symbolic level human existential spatiality. Placing emphasis on the pre-cognitive genesis of symbolic meaning, as well as embodied, experiential (lived) geography, the volume offers a fresh, quasi-phenomenological approach.
The editors articulate the epistemological doctrine that perception and imagination form a continuum in which both are always implicated as complements. This approach makes a case for the interrelation of the geography of perception and the geography of imagination, which means that human/cultural geography offers only an abstraction if indeed an aesthetic geography is constituted merely as a sub-field. Human/cultural geography can only approach spatial reality through recognizing the intimate interrelative dialectic between the imaginative and perceptual meanings of our landscapes/place-worlds. This volume reinvigorates the importance of the topic of symbolism in human/cultural geography, landscape studies, philosophy of place, architecture and planning, and will stand among the classics in the field.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Philosophy, Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore, USA
Gary Backhaus
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Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Towson University, Towson, USA
John Murungi
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Symbolic Landscapes
Editors: Gary Backhaus, John Murungi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8703-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-8702-8Published: 04 November 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7959-6Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-8703-5Published: 09 November 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 400
Topics: Philosophy, general, Philosophy of Nature, Aesthetics, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Geography, general