Cultural Landscapes: Religion and Public Life

by Gabriel R. Ricci

Overview

A dualism between man and nature has been a persistentfeature of Western thought and spirituality from ancient times to the present. The opposition of mind and body, consciousness and world has tended to obscure the ways in which humans are ecologically part of interconnected systems, some of which are obvious while others operate in hidden but life-sustaining ways. CulturalLandscapes explores the physical ways in which we are intimately linked to the land and the intellectual and aesthetic connections human consciousness has with the landscape.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412805988
Publisher:	Transaction Publishers
Publication date:	12/15/2006
Series:	Religion and Public Life , #35
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	16 Years

About the Author

Gabriel R. Ricci is associate professor of humanities at Elizabethtown College and the author of The Tempo of Modernity and Time Consciousness. He is also the editor of Transaction’s Culture & Civilization series and Religion and Public Life series.

Table of Contents

Quest for the Common Good: A Collaborative Public Theology for a Life-Sustaining Climate; Three Gorges be Dammed: The Philosophical Roots of Environmentalism in China; Frontier and Virgin: The Historical Landscapes of Frederick Jackson Turner and Henry Adams; Natural Laws: The Literary and Artistic Roots of American Environmentalism; What Worlds are Made Of: The Lakota Sense of Place; An Feochàn; On the Line of the Horizon: Anxiety in de Chirico’s Metaphysical Spaces; The Use of the Landscape in Heidegger’s Philosophy; Contributors