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Gardens : an essay on the human condition / Robert Pogue Harrison.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.Description: xiii, 248 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780226317892 (alk. paper)
  • 0226317897 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • SB451 .H37 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
The vocation of care -- Eve -- The human gardener -- Homeless gardens -- "Mon jardin à moi" -- Academos -- The garden school of Epicurus -- Boccaccio's garden stories -- Monastic, republican, and princely gardens -- A note on Versailles -- On the lost art of seeing -- Sympathetic miracles -- The paradise divide: Islam and Christianity -- Men not destroyers -- The paradox of the age -- Epilogue -- Appendixes. From The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio -- From Mr. Palomar, Italo Calvino -- "The garden," Andrew Marvell -- A note on Islamic carpet gardens.
List(s) this item appears in: Garden of Ideas
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Lending Books Elisabeth C. Miller Library Tall Shelves SB468 .H27 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39352800078768
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-237) and index.

The vocation of care -- Eve -- The human gardener -- Homeless gardens -- "Mon jardin à moi" -- Academos -- The garden school of Epicurus -- Boccaccio's garden stories -- Monastic, republican, and princely gardens -- A note on Versailles -- On the lost art of seeing -- Sympathetic miracles -- The paradise divide: Islam and Christianity -- Men not destroyers -- The paradox of the age -- Epilogue -- Appendixes. From The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio -- From Mr. Palomar, Italo Calvino -- "The garden," Andrew Marvell -- A note on Islamic carpet gardens.

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