Phenomenology of the Winter-City: Myth in the Rise and Decline of Built Environments

by Abraham Akkerman

Book Overview

This book explores how the weather and city-form impact the mind, and how city-form and mind interact. It builds on Merleau-Ponty's contention that mind, the human body and the environment are intertwined in a singular composite, and on Walter Benjamin's suggestion that mind and city-form, in mutual interaction, through history, have set the course of civilization. Bringing together the fields of philosophy, urbanism, geography, history, and architecture,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319799991
• ISBN13: 9783319799995
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"