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Passing Strange and Wonderful: Aesthetics Nature And Culture
by Tuan, Yi-Fu
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/As New
- ISBN 10
- 1559632097
- ISBN 13
- 9781559632096
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Washington, DC: Island Press, 1993 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Octavo. x (ii), 288 (2) pp. First Edition, 1993. Not Price Clipped. Pristine, no wear. No markings, tight binding, pages clean and white. 5.75" x 9.25". Green half-cloth with tan paper-covered boards, and gilt lettering to spine. Dust Jacket in removable acetate protector. prologue: light and shadows, Part I. Aesthetics, Nature, and Culture; Part II. Sensory Delights; Part III. A Cultural-Aesthetic Spectrum; Part IV. Synthesis of Space and the State; Part V. Aesthetics and Morality; epilogue: shadows and light; notes, acknowledgments, index. "In this rich and rewarding work, Yi-Fu Tuan vividly demonstrates that feeling and beauty are essential components of life and society. The aesthetic is not merely one aspect of culture but its central core - both its driving force and its ultimate goal. Beginning with the individual and his physical world, Tuan's exploration progresses from the simple to the complex. His initial evaluation of the building blocks of aesthetic experience (sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch) develops gradually into a wide-ranging examination of the most elaborate of human constructs, including art, architecture, literature, philosophy, music, and more." from the jacket flap..
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005380
- Title
- Passing Strange and Wonderful: Aesthetics Nature And Culture
- Author
- Tuan, Yi-Fu
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1559632097
- ISBN 13
- 9781559632096
- Publisher
- Island Press
- Place of Publication
- Washington, DC
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- PHILOSOPHY HUMAN GEOGRAPHY AESTHETICS CULTURE AND SOCIETY ETHICS MORALTIY GOODNESS AND BEAUTY
- Bookseller catalogs
- PHILOSOPHY;
- Size
- Octavo
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