Phenomenology of the Winter-City Myth in the Rise and Decline of Built Environments /
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| Summary: | XIII, 230 p. text |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2016.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2016. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26701-2 |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Table of Contents:
- 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.