Main entry:

Mugerauer, Robert, author.

Title & Author:

Interpreting environments : tradition, deconstruction, hermeneutics / Robert Mugerauer.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 1995.

Description:

xlvi, 186 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-180) and index.
pt. 1. Traditional approaches: Wittgenstein's and jung's lives, work, and houses. Facing uncertain meanings and traditions -- Wittgenstein's restlessness -- Jung's quest for wholeness -- Alternatives for contemporary existence -- pt. 2. Deconstruction: pyramids as posture and strategy. Deconstructing pyramids -- Egyptian pyramids -- French neoclassic pyramids -- Postmodern pyramids -- pt. 3. Hermeneutic retrieval: American nature as paradise. America religiously understood -- A natural paradise already given -- Paradise promised: wilderness to be converted -- Secular echoes in landscape architecture and environmental attitudes -- The hidden and disclosure.

Summary:

In this pioneering book, Robert Mugerauer seeks to make deconstruction and hermeneutics understandable and useable for people in the environmental disciplines, including architecture, planning, urban studies, environmental studies, and cultural geography. He chooses case studies to demonstrate the use of each methodology, without advocating any particular one, so that their strategies, assumptions, implications, strengths, and weaknesses become clear. The first case study demonstrates the traditional approach and aims to recover the meaning of Jung's and Wittgenstein's houses by analyzing their historical, intentional contexts. The second case study utilizes the deconstructivist approach to explore Egyptian, French neoclassical, and postmodern attempts to use pyramids to constitute a sense of lasting presence. And the third case study employs hermeneutics to reveal how the American understanding of the natural landscape has evolved from religious to secular to ecological since the nineteenth century.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0292751788 (permanent paper ; acid-free paper)
9780292751781 (permanent paper ; acid-free paper)
0292751893 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
9780292751897 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)

Subject:

Human ecology Philosophy.
Landscape assessment Methodology.
Human geography Philosophy.
Human geography Methodology.
Cultural geography Philosophy.
Écologie humaine Philosophie.
Paysages Évaluation Méthodologie.
Géographie humaine Philosophie.
Géographie humaine Méthodologie.
Géographie sociale Philosophie.
Géographie culturelle Philosophie.
Humanökologie
Philosophie
Landschaftsbewertung
Methode
Anthropogeografie

Holdings:

Location: Library main 83834
Call No.: ID GF21.M8; ID:95-B3342
Status: Available