Michael G. Lee

The German Mittelweg

Garden Theory and Philosophy in the Time of Kant

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 intellectual resources that were newly available through Kant's critical philosophy. The most important of these concepts was the prescription for a new Mittelweg, or "middle path," garden that would mediate between the perceived excesses of French formalism and the English picturesque. In close analysis, the author demonstrates that Kant used similar "middle path" techniques in the design of his own "critical path" between dogmatism and skepticism. This similarity is most apparent when he uses topographical metaphors to describe the organizational principles of his system.

By interpreting Kant's topographical metaphors in relation to contemporary garden theories, this book offers new insights into the structural similarities between his "critical path" and the German garden's "middle path" between French formalism and the English picturesque.

Produktdetails

• Studies in Philosophy
• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 507g
• ISBN-13: 9780415542784
• ISBN-10: 0415542782
• Artikelnr.: 35452971

Autorenporträt

Michael G. Lee

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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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.