The Meanings Of Landscape: Essays on Place, Space, Environment and Justice

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Cover Endorsement Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of Figures Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction: Landscape, philology, and the environmental Just ask Alice Landscape’s double meaning and the spatial appropriation of place and nature Place and space The “nature” of landscape The perspective of natural science The perspective of art and theater and the prospect of modernity’s nature The organization of the book Recovering the philological foundations of the environmental (geo)humanities The chapters in brief Note Chapter 1: Recovering the substantive nature of landscape Personal preface Introduction The duplicitous meaning of landscape The “territorial” meaning of landscape Landschaft as territory and community Landschaft, social estate, and community justice The Landschaft as a body politic The land and law in Landschaft Landschaft art Landscape and country in England Landschaft and country Nature, custom, and landscape Natural law and landscape Palladian landscape The landscaping of Landschaft Fascist landscape The morphology of geography’s Landschaft Rethinking the substantive meaning of landscape Notes Chapter 2: Landscape, place, and the state of progress Prologue Introduction Progressive custom The political landscape Court vs. country, lord vs. landscape Landscape as the scene of state The progress of landscape The materialization of the landscape of progress The transformation of progress The stages of progress Revolutionary progress The non-place of modernity Custom vs. modern progress Conclusion: From utopianism to topianism Notes Chapter 3: Choros, place, and the spatialization of landscape Introduction The Platonic chora The substantive choros of the Greek polis Ptolemaic chorography and landscape as scenic space Plato, Ptolemy, chorography, and chora Platonic cosmology and landscape Space, place, region, and choros/chora Conclusion Notes Chapter 4: Are islanders insular? A personal view Preface Prologue: A personal tale of two islands Is no man not unto an island? Islandic civilizational primacy The noninsularity of the insular Ptolemaic navigation Islecentricism? In the mind’s isle Notes Chapter 5: The case of the “missing” mask: Performance, theater, ætherial space, and the practice of landscape/architecture Prologue a tale of two cities Landscape/architecture and theatrical practice The case of the missing mask Substantial masks versus ætherial performance space Ætherial versus spatial scenery Personifying Britain as landscape Turning the substantive place of the theater “outside in” and then “inside out” An expostulation with Inigo Jones Landscape and Pygmalion Conclusion Notes Chapter 6: Performing on the landscape versus doing landscape: Perambulatory practice, sight, and the sense of belonging Performing upon landscape versus doing landscape Sensing landscape and the sense of belonging Herd animals and the doing of the pedestrian landscape Doing and practicing landscape Doing custom versus performing tradition “All we like sheep …” Conclusion Chapter 7: Heidegger, Latour, and the reification of things: The inversion and spatial enclosure of the substantive landscape – The Lake District case Preface Introduction Part 1: The concept of thing – Heidegger and Latour The reified thing Thing studies Defining things in the substantive landscape The enclosure and inversion of the landscape of things The European Landscape Convention Part 2: Betwixt and between landscapes – The Lake District vs. the Yorkshire Dales Community vs. nature’s space Concluding discussion Acknowledgments Notes Chapter 8: Transcendent space, reactionary modernism, and the “diabolic” sublime: Walter Christaller, Edgar Kant, and the landscape origins of modern spatial science and planning Prelude Perspectival space and the origins of the sublime The space of Christaller’s reactionary modern models Christaller and the bordering of a borderless Germany Edgar Kant’s “landscapic” regions Postlude Acknowledgments Notes Chapter 9: Geese, elves, and the duplicitous, “diabolical” landscaped space and wild nature of reactionary modernism: Holgersson, Hägerstrand, and Lorenz Duplicitous landscape Nils Holgersson’s Swedish journey Holgersson and geographical science Holgersson and the two landscapes The modern time-space geography of Holgersson Nils Holgersson, Konrad Lorenz, and biological reactionary modernism Fictional lies and real geese and Nazis Holgersson’s “natural” landscape and ethnic cleansing Goosey miscegenation, racial hygiene, and euthanasia Past and contemporary non-Nazi reactionary modern parallels: Edward O. Wilson and George Monbiot Rewilding landscape Conclusion: Diabolic thought and reactionary modernism Acknowledgments Notes References Index