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Chargement... Philosophy for Gardeners: Ideas and paradoxes to ponder in the gardenpar Kate Collyns
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Explore ideas, consider the big questions and learn life lessons in your garden. Gardening is an innately thoughtful as well as practical pastime: planning ahead, imagining how plants will grow, deciding what will make a 'good' garden, wondering at the beauty of flowers and noticing how ecosystems work. This delightful and engaging collection of essays illustrate how many philosophical ideas arise naturally in gardeners' everyday work. Growers by their nature are in fact already philosophers: existentialists who try to live and work by their own rules in a garden; stoics who put up with slug damage again and again, and try to work in harmony with nature; and practical quantum scientists who witness incredible processes going on in plant cells beneath the ground. In Philosophy for Gardeners, Kate Collyns uses aspects of gardening to introduce and explore a range of philosophical ideas and schools of thought; cultivating a greater understanding and appreciation of intriguing concepts, propagated from science, evolution and aesthetics through to politics, economics and ethics. Broken into four sections, Soil, Growth, Harvest and Cycles, each section explores questions of philosophy through the lens of the garden. A fascinating read, this book is as perfect for students of philosophy as it is for gardeners, filled with thought-provoking reflections on life, being and existence. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Gardens and philosophy go way back, and there have been various books that explore this intersection but few if any use the act of gardening as the entryway to philosophical thought. A garden, whether you're a gardener or someone just enjoying it, is a place of quiet and contemplation. Your thoughts may be as simple as observing a beautiful flower or the song of a bird, but often, if you spend some time there, you begin thinking bigger thoughts. This book grounds those thoughts, quite literally, in the act of gardening itself.
I think those who have studied philosophy AND enjoy gardening will enjoy this a lot. It isn't that any specific item will be new to you, it will be the juxtaposition of things you knew from a certain perspective and now can view them from a new perspective. It will also key your mind into making other connections next time you are either gardening or studying philosophy.
While one of my undergrad degrees was philosophy I have never been a gardener, so this was a wonderful trip through an entirely new way, for me, to approach familiar topics. I would recommend this to anyone with an interest in philosophy and/or gardening, especially those well versed in both.
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley. (