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Practicing mortality : art, philosophy, and contemplative seeing
- Title
- Practicing mortality : art, philosophy, and contemplative seeing / Christopher A. Dustin and Joanna E. Ziegler.
- Author
- Dustin, Christopher A.
- Publication
- New York, N.Y. ; Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | BD331 .D88 2005 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Ziegler, Joanna E.
- Description
- xiv, 253 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "This groundbreaking book takes us to the place where art and philosophy meet, and explores how they can shape our lives. Drawing on artistic and philosophical sources, both ancient and modern, Christopher Dustin and Joanna Ziegler describe contemplative seeing as an activity that can and must be practiced everyday - one that is not detached but participatory and experientially engaged with works of art and nature. Practicing Mortality develops the idea that art, or human making, yields an awareness of that which we ourselves do not make. To practice mortality, the authors argue, is to practice living as a craft."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-249) and index.
- Contents
- What it means to see -- Walking : Thoreau's prepared vision -- The beatification of the mundane -- Turning the soul around -- Plato's art -- A reverence for wood -- Making Kosmos visible -- Having different things to see -- Thinking as craft : Heidegger and the challenge of modern technology -- Dwelling -- "Not diverse from things" : Emersonian materialism -- A life well lived.
- ISBN
- 1403965919
- 9781403965912
- 9780230600911
- 0230600913
- 9781137069931
- 1137069937
- LCCN
- 2005295245
- OCLC
- ocm57527385
- 57527385
- SCSB-1359398
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library