Gardening - Philosophy for Everyone : Cultivating Wisdom /: Cultivating Wisdom. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Fritz Allhoff, Dan O'Brien, David E. Cooper.
• Editors: Allhoff, Fritz; O'Brien, Dan
• Other Names: Cooper, David E writer of supplementary textual content.
• Contents: Acknowledgements (Dan O’Brien). Foreword (David E. Cooper). Planting the Seed: An Introduction to Gardening - Philosophy for Everyone (Dan O’Brien). Part I: The Good Life 1 The Virtues of Gardening (Isis Brook). 2 Cultivating the Soul: The Ethics of Gardening in Ancient Greece and Rome (Meghan T. Ray). 3 Escaping Eden: Plant Ethics in a Gardener’s World (Matthew Hall). 4 Food Glorious Food (Helene Gammack). Part II: Flower Power 5 Plants, Prayers and Power: The Story of the First Mediterranean Gardens (Jo Day). 6 Brussels Sprouts and Empire: Putting Down Roots (Michael Moss). 7 Transplanting Liberty: Lafayette’s American Garden (Laura Auricchio). 8 Cockney Plots: Allotments and Grassroots Political Activism (Elizabeth A. Scott). Part III: The Flower Show 9 Hortus Incantans : Gardening as an Art of Enchantment (Eric MacDonald). 10 Gardens, Music and Time (Ismay Barwell and John Powell). 11 The Pragmatic Picturesque: The Philosophy of Central Park (Gary Shapiro). Part IV: The Cosmic Garden 12 Illusions of Grandeur: A Harmonious Garden for the Sun King (Robert Neuman). 13 Time and Temporality in the Garden (Mara Miller). 14 Cultivating Our Garden: David Hume and Gardening as Therapy (Dan O’Brien). Part V: Philosophers’ Gardens 15 The Garden of the Aztec Philosopher-King (Susan Toby Evans). 16 Epicurus, the Garden, and the Golden Age (Gordon Campbell). 17 Gardener of Souls: Philosophical Education in Plato’s Phaedrus (Anne Cotton). Appendix A: Notes on Contributors.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (264 pages)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781444341423
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