Phenomenology of the Winter-City Myth in the Rise and Decline of Built Environments /

Библиографические подробности
Главный автор: Akkerman, Abraham (Автор)
Автор-организация: SpringerLink (Online service)
Примечания:XIII, 230 p.
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Язык:английский
Опубликовано: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Издание:1st ed. 2016.
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Online-ссылка:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26701-2
Формат: Электронный ресурс eКнига
Оглавление:
  • 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.