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Gardening philosophy for everyone : cultivating wisdom / edited by Dan O'Brien ; foreward by David E. Cooper.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Philosophy for everyonePublication details: Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.Description: xii, 249 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781444330212 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1444330217 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Other title:
  • Gardening and philosophy
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • SB454.3.P45 G36 2010
Contents:
The virtues of gardening / Isis Brook -- Cultivating the soul : the ethics of gardening in ancient Greece and Rome / Meghan T. Ray -- Escaping Eden : plant ethics in a gardener's world / Matthew Hall -- Food glorious food / Helene Gammack -- Plants, prayers, and power : the story of the first Mediterranean gardens / Jo Day -- Brussels sprouts and empire : putting down roots / Michael Moss -- Transplanting liberty : LaFayette's American garden / Laura Aurrichio -- Cockney plots : allotments and grassroots political activism / Elizabeth A. Scott -- Hortus Incantans : gardening as an art of enchantment / Eric MacDonald -- Gardens, music, and time / Ismay Barwell and John Powell -- The pragmatic picturesque : the philosophy of Central Park / Gary Shapiro -- Illusions of grandeur : a harmonious garden for the Sun King / Robert Neuman -- Time and temporality in the garden / Mara Miller -- Cultivating our garden : David Hume and gardening as therapy / Dan O'Brien -- The garden of the Aztec philosopher-king / Susan Toby Evans -- Epicurus, the garden, and the golden age / Gordon Campbell -- Gardener of souls : philosophical education in Plato's Phaedrus / Anne Cotton.
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Includes bibliographical references.

The virtues of gardening / Isis Brook -- Cultivating the soul : the ethics of gardening in ancient Greece and Rome / Meghan T. Ray -- Escaping Eden : plant ethics in a gardener's world / Matthew Hall -- Food glorious food / Helene Gammack -- Plants, prayers, and power : the story of the first Mediterranean gardens / Jo Day -- Brussels sprouts and empire : putting down roots / Michael Moss -- Transplanting liberty : LaFayette's American garden / Laura Aurrichio -- Cockney plots : allotments and grassroots political activism / Elizabeth A. Scott -- Hortus Incantans : gardening as an art of enchantment / Eric MacDonald -- Gardens, music, and time / Ismay Barwell and John Powell -- The pragmatic picturesque : the philosophy of Central Park / Gary Shapiro -- Illusions of grandeur : a harmonious garden for the Sun King / Robert Neuman -- Time and temporality in the garden / Mara Miller -- Cultivating our garden : David Hume and gardening as therapy / Dan O'Brien -- The garden of the Aztec philosopher-king / Susan Toby Evans -- Epicurus, the garden, and the golden age / Gordon Campbell -- Gardener of souls : philosophical education in Plato's Phaedrus / Anne Cotton.

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