Phenomenology of the Winter-City : Myth in the Rise and Decline of Built Environments
This book explores how the weather and city-form impact the mind, and how city-form and mind interact. It builds on Merleau-Ponty s contention that mind, the human body and the environment are intertwined in a singular composite, and on Walter Benjamin s suggestion that mind and city-form, in mutual...
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| Idioma: | Anglais |
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| Accés en línia: | Accès sur la plateforme Springer Accès sur la plateforme ISTEX Accès Université d'Orléans |
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| Edition sous un autre format: | • Phenomenology of the Winter-City, Texte imprimé, 9783319266992 • Phenomenology of the Winter-City, Texte imprimé, 9783319267005 • Phenomenology of the Winter-City, Texte imprimé, 9783319799995 |
Taula de continguts:
- 1. Introduction: Intertwining consciousness, human body and the environment
- Part I. Winter and the North in the emergence of civic space
- 2. Human posture and the nightly sky: Cosmos in Diluvial prehistoric myth
- 3. The North, Axis mundi and gender myths: The primordial civic space
- 4. Winter acumen and mood disorder: Apollo, Dionysus and Foucault s History of Madness
- 5. Hero under the weather: Mood disorder and the emergence of civic space
- 6. Psychocultural aspects of weather and place: The Little Ice Age
- Part II. Body-earth-sky and city-form
- 7. Sky myths and gender projection in early city-form
- 8. The North and paradigms of balance: Harmony and equilibrium as an urban ideal
- 9. Axial Age civilizations as a project of north-hemispheric masculinity: The Antipodean myth
- 10. Philosophical urbanism from Thomas More to Walter Benjamin
- Part III. Phenomenology of the winter-city
- 12. From Cartesian doubt to heroic design: The late LIA and the Myth of the Grand Designer
- 13. The late LIA and its urban sequel: Reason, mental illness and the emergence of crowd
- Part IV. Solvitur ambulando
- 14. Aftermaths of the LIA: Loss of place and the North American winter-city
- 15. Epilogue.