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Dwelling, Place and Environment : Towards a Phenomenology of Person and World.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1985Copyright date: ©1985Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (304 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789401092517
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 304.2
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Contents:
Front -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Dwelling, place and environment: An introduction -- 2. Geographical experiences and being-in-the-world: The phenomenological origins of geography -- 3. The quest for authenticity and the replication of environmental meaning -- 4. Language and the emergence of environment -- 5. Place, body and situation -- 6 Acoustic space -- 7. Bound to the environment: Towards a phenomenology of sightlessness -- 9. The circle and the cross: Loric and sacred space in the holy wells of Ireland -- 10. Many dwellings: Views of a Pueblo world -- 11 A phenomenological approach to architecture and its teaching in the design studio -- 12. The dwelling door: Towards a phenomenology of transition -- 14. Reconciling old and new worlds: The dwelling - journey relationship as portrayed in Vilhelm Moberg's "Emigrant" novels -- 15. The role of spiritual discipline in learning to dwell on earth -- 16. Nature, water symbols, and the human quest for wholeness -- 17. Counterfeit and authentic wholes: Finding a means for dwelling in nature -- The contributors -- Index.
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Front -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Dwelling, place and environment: An introduction -- 2. Geographical experiences and being-in-the-world: The phenomenological origins of geography -- 3. The quest for authenticity and the replication of environmental meaning -- 4. Language and the emergence of environment -- 5. Place, body and situation -- 6 Acoustic space -- 7. Bound to the environment: Towards a phenomenology of sightlessness -- 9. The circle and the cross: Loric and sacred space in the holy wells of Ireland -- 10. Many dwellings: Views of a Pueblo world -- 11 A phenomenological approach to architecture and its teaching in the design studio -- 12. The dwelling door: Towards a phenomenology of transition -- 14. Reconciling old and new worlds: The dwelling - journey relationship as portrayed in Vilhelm Moberg's "Emigrant" novels -- 15. The role of spiritual discipline in learning to dwell on earth -- 16. Nature, water symbols, and the human quest for wholeness -- 17. Counterfeit and authentic wholes: Finding a means for dwelling in nature -- The contributors -- Index.

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