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How does it feel to get caught in a violent storm in the high Alps? What does a visitor think while ascending the sacred way in Delphi? How does a rock garden in Kyoto challenge one's sense of self? This book invites readers to open their imaginations to the power of evocative places.

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"Philosophers have become increasingly concerned with the places and spaces of our Earth. They are finally coming to acknowledge their situatedness, and to be grateful for it. Sallis's wonderful book evokes in word and image the power of places that bring him--and now us--to think, feel, imagine, and write." --David Farrell Krell, DePaul University

Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword: Evocative Places
1. Translations
2. Elements
3. Winter Stories
4. Arches
5. Welkin
6. Sublimities
7. Garden Time
8. Islands
9. Caldera
10. Thalassic Surfaces
11. Lightlines
12. Ascent
13. Earthbound
14. Silence
15. Storm at Dusk
16. Solstitial Fires
17. Ancient Memories
18. Chora
19. Descent
20. At Sea
21. Mountain Spectacle
22. Lumen Naturale
23. Mountain Time
24. Of Stone
25. Protractive Places
26. Visible Elements
27. Cascata
28. Quiet Visibility
29. Shelterings
30. A Little Night Music
31. Beyond the Narrows
32. Force
Index

Topographies

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      Book details

      Publisher Indiana University Press
      Published 8 November 2006
      ISBN-13 9780253218711
      978-0253218711
      ISBN-10 0253218713
      Also in:
      Travel and holiday

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      How does it feel to get caught in a violent storm in the high Alps? What does a visitor think while ascending the sacred way in Delphi? How does a rock garden in Kyoto challenge one's sense of self? This book invites readers to open their imaginations to the power of evocative places.

      Trade Review
      "Philosophers have become increasingly concerned with the places and spaces of our Earth. They are finally coming to acknowledge their situatedness, and to be grateful for it. Sallis's wonderful book evokes in word and image the power of places that bring him--and now us--to think, feel, imagine, and write." --David Farrell Krell, DePaul University

      Table of Contents

      Contents
      Foreword: Evocative Places
      1. Translations
      2. Elements
      3. Winter Stories
      4. Arches
      5. Welkin
      6. Sublimities
      7. Garden Time
      8. Islands
      9. Caldera
      10. Thalassic Surfaces
      11. Lightlines
      12. Ascent
      13. Earthbound
      14. Silence
      15. Storm at Dusk
      16. Solstitial Fires
      17. Ancient Memories
      18. Chora
      19. Descent
      20. At Sea
      21. Mountain Spectacle
      22. Lumen Naturale
      23. Mountain Time
      24. Of Stone
      25. Protractive Places
      26. Visible Elements
      27. Cascata
      28. Quiet Visibility
      29. Shelterings
      30. A Little Night Music
      31. Beyond the Narrows
      32. Force
      Index

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