Landscape and Travelling East and West: A Philosophical by Hans-Georg Moeller,Andrew Whitehead

By Hans-Georg Moeller,Andrew Whitehead

Philosophical reflections on trips and crossings, houses and habitats, have seemed in all significant East Asian and Western philosophies. panorama and traveling first emerged as a key factor in old chinese language philosophy, speedy changing into a middle situation of Daoism and Confucianism. but regardless of the eminence of such reflections, panorama and vacationing East and West: A Philosophical Journey is the 1st educational examine to discover those philosophical subject matters in detail.

Individual case reviews from esteemed specialists think of how philosophical thought of locations and trips have encouraged and formed significant highbrow and cultural traditions; how such notions concretely manifested themselves in chinese language artwork, rather within the genres of panorama portray and backyard structure. The reports current a philosophical discussion among Confucianism and Daoism on problems with social house and belonging and comprise dialogue on commute and panorama in Buddhism in addition to eastern and Tibetan contexts.

Approaching the subject from an inter-cultural views, relatively East Asian philosophies, and utilizing those to complement modern reflections on house, the surroundings, and traversing, this distinct assortment provides a huge voice to provide philosophical, political, and cultural discourses.

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