| Description |
xii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Philosophy for everyone |
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Philosophy for everyone.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
The virtues of gardening / Isis Brook -- Cultivating the soul : the ethics of gardening in ancient Greece and Rome / Meghan T. Ray -- Escaping Eden : plant ethics in a gardener's world / Matthew Hall -- Food glorious food / Helene Gammack -- Plants, prayers, and power : the story of the first Mediterranean gardens / Jo Day -- Brussels sprouts and empire : putting down roots / Michael Moss -- Transplanting liberty : LaFayette's American garden / Laura Aurrichio -- Cockney plots : allotments and grassroots political activism / Elizabeth A. Scott -- Hortus Incantans : gardening as an art of enchantment / Eric MacDonald -- Gardens, music, and time / Ismay Barwell and John Powell -- The pragmatic picturesque : the philosophy of Central Park / Gary Shapiro -- Illusions of grandeur : a harmonious garden for the Sun King / Robert Neuman -- Time and temporality in the garden / Mara Miller -- Cultivating our garden : David Hume and gardening as therapy / Dan O'Brien -- The garden of the Aztec philosopher-king / Susan Toby Evans -- Epicurus, the garden, and the golden age / Gordon Campbell -- Gardener of souls : philosophical education in Plato's Phaedrus / Anne Cotton. |
| Subject |
Gardening -- Philosophy.
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Gardens -- Philosophy.
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| Added Author |
O'Brien, Dan, 1968-
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Cooper, David E. (David Edward), 1942-
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| Added Title |
Gardening and philosophy |
| ISBN |
9781444330212 paperback alkaline paper |
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1444330217 paperback alkaline paper |
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