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Harrison, Robert Pogue.

Gardens : an essay on the human condition / Robert Pogue Harrison.

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

xiii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

"With Gardens, Robert Pogue Harrison graces readers with a thoughtful, wide-ranging examination of the many ways gardens evoke the human condition. Moving from from the gardens of ancient philosophers to the gardens of homeless people in contemporary New York, he shows how, again and again, the garden has served as a check against the destruction and losses of history."--Jacket.

Gardens -- History.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-237) and index.

The vocation of care -- Eve -- The human gardener -- Homeless gardens -- "Mon jardin à moi" -- Academos -- The garden school of Epicurus -- Boccaccio's garden stories -- Monastic, republican, and princely gardens -- A note on Versailles -- On the lost art of seeing -- Sympathetic miracles -- The paradise divide: Islam and Christianity -- Men not destroyers -- The paradox of the age -- Epilogue -- Appendixes: From The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio -- From Mr. Palomar, Italo Calvino -- "The garden," Andrew Marvell -- A note on Islamic carpet gardens.

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