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"I find myself completely besotted by a new book titled Gardens. The author... is one of the very best cultural critics at work today. He is a man of deep learning, immense generosity of spirit, passionate curiosity, and manifold rhetorical gifts." - Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune "Mr. Harrison has planted his own garden of beautiful quotations and provocative speculation, and it is an absorbing and stimulating place to spend time." - Jonathan Rosen, Wall Street Journal "This book is about gardens as a metaphor for the human condition.... Harrison draws freely and with brilliance from 5,000 years of Western literature and criticism, including works on philosophy and garden history.... He is a careful as well as an inspiring scholar." - Tom Turner, Times Higher Education "The year's most thought-provoking, original, and weighty garden book is Gardens.... Reading Harrison's book is like strolling down a path through a well-cultivated, richly sown, light-dappled woodland.... Just as in the making of a garden, there's no end to the wonder; the journey is everything." - New York Times Book Review"
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Humans have long turned to gardens - both real and imaginary - for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. With "Gardens", Robert Pogue Harrison graces readers with a thoughtful, wide-ranging examination of the many ways gardens evoke the human condition. Moving from the gardens of ancient philosophers to the gardens of homeless people in contemporary New York, he shows how, again and again, the garden has served as a check against the destruction and losses of history. Alive with the echoes and arguments of Western thought, "Gardens" is a fitting continuation of the intellectual journeys of Harrison's earlier classics, "Forests" and "The Dominion of the Dead". Voltaire famously urged us to cultivate our gardens; with this compelling volume, Harrison reminds us of the nature of that responsibility - and its enduring importance to humanity.
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Descripción hardcover. Condición: new. Illustrated. Humans have long turned to gardensboth real and imaginaryfor sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them Those gardens may be as far away from everyday reality as Gilgameshs garden of the gods or as near as our own backyard but in their very conception and the marks they bear of human care and cultivation gardens stand as restorative nourishing necessary havensWith Gardens Robert Pogue Harrison graces readers with a thoughtful wideranging examination of the many ways gardens evoke the human condition Moving from from the gardens of ancient philosophers to the gardens of homeless people in contemporary New York he shows how again and again the garden has served as a check against the destruction and losses of history The ancients explains Harrison viewed gardens as both a model and a location for the laborious selfcultivation and selfimprovement that are essential to serenity and enlightenment an association that has continued throughout the ages The Bible and Quran Platos Academy and Epicuruss Garden School Zen rock and Islamic carpet gardens Boccaccio Rihaku Capek Cao Xueqin Italo Calvino Ariosto Michel Tournier and Hannah Arendtall come into play as this work explores the ways in which the concept and reality of the garden has informed human thinking about mortality order and powerAlive with the echoes and arguments of Western thought Gardens is a fitting continuation of the intellectual journeys of Harrisons earlier classics Forests and The Dominion of the Dead Voltaire famously urged us to cultivate our gardens with this compelling volume Robert Pogue Harrison reminds us of the nature of that responsibilityand its enduring importance to humanityI find myself completely besotted by a new book titled Gardens An Essay on the Human Condition by Robert Pogue Harrison The author is one of the very best cultural critics at work today He is a man of deep learning immense generosity of spirit passionate curiosity and manifold rhetorical giftsJulia Keller Chicago TribuneThis book is about gardens as a metaphor for the human condition Harrison draws freely and with brilliance from 5000 years of Western literature and criticism including works on philosophy and garden history He is a careful as well as an inspiring scholarTom Turner Times Higher EducationWhen I was a student my Cambridge supervisor said in the Olympian tone characteristic of his kind that the only living literary critics for whom he would sell his shirt were William Empson and G Wilson Knight Having spent the subsequent 30 years in the febrile world of academic Lit Crit Im not sure that Id sell my shirt for any living critic But if there had to be one it would unquestionably be Robert Pogue Harrison whose study Forests The Shadow of Civilization published in 1992 has the true quality of literature not of criticismit stays with you like an amiable ghost long after you read itThough more modest in scope this new book is similarly destined to become a classic It has two principal heroes the ancient philosopher Epicurus and the wonderfully witty Czech writer Karel Capek apropos of whom it is remarked that whereas most people believe gardening to be a subset of life gardeners including Capek understand that life is a subset of gardeningJonathan Bate The Spectator. Nº de ref. del artículo: DADAX0226317897
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