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  • Life Takes Place

    Phenomenology, Lifeworlds, and Place Making

    by David Seamon ...
    Life Takes Place argues that, even in our mobile, hypermodern world, human life is impossible without place. Seamon asks the question: why does life take place? He draws on examples of specific places and place experiences to understand place more broadly. Advocating for a holistic way of understanding that he calls "synergistic relationality," Seamon defines places as spatial fields that gather, ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Phenomenological Perspectives on Place, Lifeworlds, and Lived Emplacement

    The Selected Writings of David Seamon

    by David Seamon ...
    Series series World Library of Educationalists
    Phenomenological Perspectives on Place, Lifeworlds and Lived Emplacement is a compilation of seventeen previously published articles and chapters by David Seamon, one of the foremost researchers in environmental, architectural, and place phenomenology. These entries discuss such topics as body-subject, the lived body, place ballets, environmental serendipity, homeworlds, and the pedagogy of place ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Dwelling, Place and Environment

    Towards a Phenomenology of Person and World

    Edited by David Seamon, Robert Mugerauer ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    themes among the essays resurface and resonate. Though our request for essays was broad and open-ended, we found that topics such as seeing, authenticity, interpretation, wholeness, care, and dwelling ran as undercur rents throughout. Our major hope is that each essay plays a part in revealing a larger whole of meaning which says much about a more humane relation ship with places, environments and ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • The Human Experience of Space and Place

    Edited by Anne Buttimer, David Seamon ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Humanistic geography is one of the major emerging themes which has recently dominated geographic writing. Anne Buttimer has been one of the leading figures in the rise of humanistic geography, and the research students she collected round her at Clark University in the 1970s constituted something of a ‘school’ of humanistic geographers. This school developed a significantly new style of ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • A Geography of the Lifeworld (Routledge Revivals)

    Movement, Rest and Encounter

    by David Seamon ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Within the modern Western lifestyle increasing conflict is becoming apparent between that patchwork of isolated points such as the home or the office, which are linked by a mechanical system of transportation and communication devices, and a growing sense of homelessness and isolation.This work, first published in 1979, adopts a phenomenological perspective illustrating that this malaise may have ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Art, Artists and Pedagogy

    Philosophy and the Arts in Education

    Edited by Christopher Naughton, Gert Biesta, David Cole ...
    This volume has been brought together to generate new ideas and provoke discussion about what constitutes arts education in the twenty-first century, both within the institution and beyond. Art, Artists and Pedagogy is intended for educators who teach the arts from early childhood to tertiary level, artists working in the community, or those studying arts in education from undergraduate to Masters ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Understanding Material Culture

    by Ian Woodward ...
    "In his interdisciplinary review of material culture, Ian Woodward goes beyond synthesis to offer a theoretically innovative reconstruction of the field. It is filled with gems of conceptual insight and empirical discovery. A wonderful book."- Jeffrey C. Alexander, Yale University"A well-grounded and accessible survey of the burgeoning field of material culture studies for students in sociology ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Places of Learning

    Media, Architecture, Pedagogy

    by Elizabeth Ellsworth ...
    This book takes a close look at places of learning located outside of schools, yet deeply concerned with the experience of the learning self. It explores what it might mean to think of pedagogy not in relation to knowledge as a "thing made," but to knowledge in the making. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Performance and Phenomenology

    Traditions and Transformations

    Edited by Maaike Bleeker, Jon Foley Sherman, Eirini Nedelkopoulou ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This book offers a timely discussion about the interventions and tensions between two contested and contentious fields, performance and phenomenology, with international case studies that map an emerging twenty-first century terrain of critical and performance practice. Building on the foundational texts of both fields that established the performativity of perception and cognition, Performance ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Everyday Playfulness

    A New Approach to Children's Play and Adult Responses to It

    by Stuart Lester ...
    Seeing play as an important and vital element of life for children and adults alike, this book addresses the ways in which practitioners take account of and act responsibly with moments of children's play and playfulness.Working with the Playwork Principles, the book draws on alternative concepts to traditional approaches, including ideas from materialist and posthuman philosophy and human ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things

    by Marilyn M. Cooper, John Muckelbauer, Christa Teston, Katie Zabrowski, Donnie Johnson Sackey, Cydney Alexis, Kevin Rutherford0, Jason Palmeri1, S. Scott Graham2, Kristie S. Fleckenstein3, Brian J. McNely4, Laurie Ellen Gries5, Kim Lacey6, Jodie Nicotra7, Sarah Overbaugh Hallenbeck8, Nathaniel A. Rivers9, Thomas Rickert0, William Hart-Davidson1, James J. Brown Jr.2 ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
    A fascinating addition to rhetoric scholarship, Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things expands the scope of rhetorical situations beyond the familiar humanist triad of speaker-audience-purpose to an inclusive study of inanimate objects.The fifteen essays in Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things persuasively overturn the stubborn assumption that objects are passive tools in the hands of objective human ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Authenticity in Culture, Self, and Society

    by J. Patrick Williams ...
    Across sociology and cultural studies in particular, the concept of authenticity has begun to occupy a central role, yet in spite of its popularity as an ideal and philosophical value authenticity notably suffers from a certain vagueness, with work in this area tending to borrow ideas from outside of sociology, whilst failing to present empirical studies which centre on the concept itself. ... Read more

    $59.99 USD