ISBN:
9781438484266
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 277 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als The seasons
DDC:
304.25
Keywords:
Human ecology and the humanities
;
Seasons
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Pioneering essays that demonstrate the significance of the seasons for philosophy, environmental thought, anthropology, cultural studies, aesthetics, poetics, and literary criticism.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Thinking through the Seasons -- The Role and Relevance of the Seasons -- Seasonal Complexity and the Need for Interdisciplinarity -- Seasons as Natureculture: Poetry, Literature, Art, and Myth -- Philosophical, Literary, and Environmental Perspectives -- Environmental Time -- Phenomenology and Poetics -- Anthropology and the Arctic -- Everyday Aesthetics -- Decolonizing Literature -- Notes -- Environmental Time -- 1 The Four Seasons and the Rhythms of Place-Based Time -- Sowing the Seasons into Place -- The Notion of the Season -- The East -- Kinds of Time -- Placing Time -- Repetition and Rhythm -- Kairos and Chronos -- Scales of Time -- Mythic Time -- Challenges to the Four Seasons Model -- Temporal Discontinuities and Disruptions -- The Values of a Seasonal Framework -- Storied Residence and Restor(y)ation -- Inside-Out Affects -- The Elemental -- An Alternative to "Nature" -- Sustainability and the Seasons -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2 The Seasons Embodied: The Story of a Plant -- Method -- Early Spring-The Warming, Flowering Bud -- Movement -- Withdrawing and Preparing -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Phenomenology and Poetics -- 3 A Poetic Phenomenology of the Seasons -- Introduction -- Key Concepts -- An Idealized Sketch of the Four Temperate Seasons -- In Late Winter -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 Hèolderlin, Heidegger, and Seasonal Time -- The Seasons as a Historically Determined Phenomenon of Human Existence and A-theoretical Thinking -- The Seasons and Machination as the Fundamental Feature of Being -- The Simplicity of the Year: Hèolderlin, Heidegger, and the World as Fourfold -- On the Conversation between Thinking and Poetizing -- The Seasons in Hèolderlin's "Latest" Poems -- Higher Humanity -- The Seasons and the World as Fourfold.
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