Dwelling, Place and Environment Towards a Phenomenology of Person an
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 t
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dwelling, place and environment towards a phenomenology of person and world
edited by
david seamon and robert mugerauer
1985 MARTINUS NIJHOFF PUBLISHERS .... a member of the KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS GROUP
DORDRECHT I BOSTON I LANCASTER
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Dwelling, place, and environment. 1. Anthropo-geography--Addresses, essays, lectures. 2. Human ecology--Addresses, essays, lectures. 3. Dwellings--Social aspects--Addresses, essays, lectures
4. Phenomenology--Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Seamor., David. II. Mugerauer, Robert. GF49.D83 1985 304.2 85-13626 ISBN-13: 978-90-247-3283-1
ISBN-13: 978-90-247-3282-1 e-ISBN-13: 978-94-010-9251-7 DOl: 10.1007/978-94-010-9251-7
Copyright
© 1985 by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1985 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, P.O. Box 163, 3300 AD Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
Contents Acknowledgments
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1. Dwelling, place and environment: An introduction by David Seamon and Robert Mugerauer
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Part I. Beginnings and directions
2. Geographical experiences and being-in-the-world: phenomenological origins of geography by Edward Relph
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3. The quest for authenticity and the replication of environmental meaning by Kimberly Dovey
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4. Language and the emergence of the environment by Robert Mugerauer
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5. Place, body and situation by Joseph Grange
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Part II. Environment and place
6. Acoustic space by R. Murray Schafer
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7. Bound to the environment: Towards a phenomenology of sightlessness by Miriam Helen Hill
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8. Towards revealing the sense of place: An intuitive "reading" of four Dalmatian towns by Francis Violich
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Contents
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9. The circle and the cross: Loric and sacred space in the holy wells of Ireland by Walter L. Brenneman, Jr. 10. Many dwellings: Views of a Pueblo world by David G. Saile 1. A phenomenological approach to architecture and its teaching in the design studio by Botond Bognar
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Part III. Place and dwelling
12. The dwelling door: Towards a phenomenology of transition by Richard Lang 13. Body, house and city: The intertwinings of embodiment, inhabitation and civilization by Bernd Jager 14. Reconciling old and new worlds: The dwelling-journey relationship as portrayed in Vilhelm Moberg's "Emigrant" novels by David Seamon 15. The role of spiritual discipline in learning to dwell on earth by Michael E. Zimmerman
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