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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “augustin berque”
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  • Poetics of the Earth

    Natural History and Human History

    by Augustin Berque ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    Poetics of the Earth is a work of environmental philosophy, based on a synthesis of eastern and western thought on natural and human history. It draws on recent biological research to show how the processes of evolution and history both function according to the same principles.Augustin Berque rejects the separation of nature and culture which he believes lies at the root of the environmental ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Thinking through Landscape

    by Augustin Berque ...
    Our attitude to nature has changed over time. This book explores the historical, literary and philosophical origins of the changes in our attitude to nature that allowed environmental catastrophes to happen. It presents a philosophical reflection on human societies’ attitude to the environment, informed by the history of the concept of landscape and the role played by the concept of nature in the ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Thinking through Landscape

    by Augustin Berque ...
    Our attitude to nature has changed over time. This book explores the historical, literary and philosophical origins of the changes in our attitude to nature that allowed environmental catastrophes to happen.The book presents a philosophical reflection on human societies’ attitude to the environment, informed by the history of the concept of landscape and the role played by the concept of nature in ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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    Deconstruction in Chinese

    by Byung-Chul Han ...
    Translated by Philippa Hurd ...
    Series Book 8 - Untimely Meditations
    Tracing the thread of “decreation” in Chinese thought, from constantly changing classical masterpieces to fake cell phones that are better than the original.Shanzhai is a Chinese neologism that means “fake,” originally coined to describe knock-off cell phones marketed under such names as Nokir and Samsing. These cell phones were not crude forgeries but multifunctional, stylish, and as good as or ... Read more

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  • Thumbelina

    The Culture and Technology of Millennials

    by Michel Serres ...
    Translated by Daniel W. Smith ...
    The title of this timely and thought-provoking book, a French bestseller, refers to schoolgirls sending text messages to their friends on their smart phones. Michel Serres, one of France's most important living intellectuals, uses this image to get at something far broader: that humans are formed and shaped by technologies, and that with the advent of computers, smart phones, and the Internet, a ... Read more

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  • Art and Cosmotechnics

    by Yuk Hui ...
    Series series e-flux
    In light of current discourses on AI and robotics, what do the various experiences of art contribute to the rethinking of technology today?Art and Cosmotechnics addresses the challenge of technology to the existence of art and traditional thought, especially in light of current discourses on artificial intelligence and robotics. It carries out an attempt on the cosmotechnics of Chinese landscape ... Read more

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  • H20 and the Waters of Forgetfulness

    by Ivan Illich ...
    Philosopher and social analyst Ivan Illich, one of the most influential thinkers of second half of this century, directs his attention to waterm the 'stuff' of purity and the creative force of the imagination without which life in unthinkable. He deals with the dual nature of water, as life-giving material substance and as the wellspring of forml, on which are founded the most basic myths and ... Read more

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  • The Philosopher

    A History in Six Types

    by Justin Smith-Ruiu ...
    How the role of the philosopher has changed over time and across cultures—and what it reveals about philosophy todayWhat would the global history of philosophy look like if it were told not as a story of ideas but as a series of job descriptions—ones that might have been used to fill the position of philosopher at different times and places over the past 2,500 years? The Philosopher does just that ... Read more

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  • The Other Face of the Moon

    by Claude Lévi-Strauss ...
    Translated by Jane Marie Todd ...
    Gathering for the first time all of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s writings on Japanese civilization, The Other Face of the Moon forms a sustained meditation into the French anthropologist’s dictum that to understand one’s own culture, one must regard it from the point of view of another.Exposure to Japanese art was influential in Lévi-Strauss’s early intellectual growth, and between 1977 and 1988 he ... Read more

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  • Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment

    by Henri Lefebvre ...
    Translated by Robert Bononno ...
    Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment is the first publication in any language of the only book devoted to architecture by Henri Lefebvre. Written in 1973 but only recently discovered in a private archive, this work extends Lefebvre’s influential theory of urban space to the question of architecture. Taking the practices and perspective of habitation as his starting place, Lefebvre redefines ... Read more

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  • Built upon Love

    Architectural Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics

    by Alberto Perez-Gomez ...
    A vision of architecture that transcends concerns of form and function and finds the connections between the architect's wish to design a beautiful world and architecture's imperative to provide a better place for society.The forced polarity between form and function in considerations of architecture—opposing art to social interests, ethics to poetic expression—obscures the deep connections ... Read more

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  • Chora 5

    Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture

    by Alberto Pérez-Gomez, Stephen Parcell ...
    Series Book 5 - CHORA: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture
    Provocative views on why architecture matters offer vital information for developing a richer architecture. ... Read more

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