Gardens and the Passion for the Infinite

by International Society for Phenomenology, Fine Arts, and Aesthetics. Conference (6th : 2000 : Harvard Divinity School)

• ISBN13: 9781402008580
• ISBN10: 1402008589
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

What essentially is a garden? Is it a small plot of land that we put aside to cultivate our favourite vegetables or to grow flowers for our personal enjoyment? Or is it a symbol, a mirror, a reflection of our human passions? Within the context of phenomenology/ontopoiesis-of-life, we find the significance of the garden inscribed within the web of the Human Condition, creatively unfurling its form from the vital basis to its loftiest swings of the period. The aesthetic synthesis of our passions is carried by the logoic promise of life - its infinite renewal and infinite response. The topic of the present volume is the mysterious ways in which Imaginatio Creatix plays within the human ingrowness in natural life, transposing dreams, nostalgias, and enchantments.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Theme: Gardens and the Passion for the Infinite	1	(6)
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
SECTION I
Mirrors of Affectivity and Aesthetics: Gardens, Parks, and Landscapes as Seen by Theophile de Viau and la Fontaine	7	(18)
Marie-Odile Sweetser
Leonardo's Annunciation Hortus Conclusus and its Reflexive Intent	25	(22)
Matthew Landrus
The Gardens of Versailles and the Sublime	47	(12)
Alberto J. L. Carrillo Canan
Gardens in Stoppard, Austen, and Goethe	59	(10)
Raymond J. Wilson III
SECTION II
Approaching Zen Gardens: A Phenomenological-Anthropological Approach	69	(16)
Miyuki Katahira
Hatha Yoga: A Phenomenological Experience of Nature	85	(8)
Anne-Marie Bowery
In Search of Paradise: Gardens in Medieval French and Persian Poetry	93	(46)
Mitra K. Martin
The Chinese Attempt to Miniaturize the World in Gardens	139	(12)
Tsung-I Dow
Aesthetics of Ancient Indian Sylvan Colonies and Gardens: Tagore's Reflexions	151	(12)
Sitansu Ray
SECTION III
Opera as a Mirror of the Infinite: The Triumph of the Human Spirit over Natural Forces in Riders to the Sea	163	(8)
George R. Tibbetts
Late Modernity and La Villette: ``Unsettling'' the Object/Event Dialectic	171	(10)
Tricia Meehan
The Looking-Glass Self: Self-Objectivation through the Garden	181	(38)
Gary Backhaus
The Fourth Dimension of Art	219	(8)
Malgorzata Zurakowska
The Ruin Aesthetic: Constructing the Deconstructive Landscape	227	(16)
Randall Rhodes
SECTION IV
Japanese Aesthetic Concepts and Phenomenological Inquiry	243	(10)
Mark Meli
The Wisdom of the Mirror in Cocteau's Orphee	253	(16)
Max Statkiewicz
She Looks in the Mirror: The Ideological Shift of the Feminine Gaze in the Film The French Lieutenant's Woman	269	(26)
Jeanie S. Dean
The Phenomenological Flaneur and Robert Irwin's ``Phenomenological Garden'' at the Getty Center	295	(12)
Paul Majkut
SECTION V
The Dream of Ascent and the Noise of Earth: Paradoxical Inclinations in Euripides's Bacchae, Shakespeare's The Tempest, and Stevens's ``Of Modern Poetry''	307	(18)
Howard Pearce
What Time Is It?: Subverting and Suppressing, Conflating and Compressing Time in Commodified Space and Architecture	325	(12)
Cher Krause Knight
The Psychometaphor	337	(10)
J. C. Couceiro-Bueno
Index of Names	347