
The German Mittelweg
Garden Theory and Philosophy in the Time of Kant
Michael G. Lee(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 19. March 2007
Book
Hardback
348 pages
978-0-415-97674-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
716 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-97674-9 (9780415976749)
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Content
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.