Thinking Through Landscape

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- 1: The Waves of History -- 1 Landscape and Thought -- 2 The Landscape Without Landscape Architects -- 3 The Waves of History -- 2: The Earth, Acting Spontaneously -- 1 The Almond Tree, Barley and The Olive Tree -- 2 Earthly Leisure -- 3 The Countryside and The Obscure Female -- 3: The Third Day of the Third Month -- 1 The Cave with the Goat-Foot -- 2 The Descent of the Tichka -- 3 The Witnesses to the Birth of the Landscape -- 4: They do not Know How to Look -- 1 Lunch on the Asqqif -- 2 The Quest for Authenticity -- 3 Xie Lingyun's Principle -- 5: While Having Substance, It Tends Toward the Spirit -- 1 The Principle of Zong Bing -- 2 Down with Harmony! -- 3 Modern De-Cosmization -- 6: An Obscure Thing Before it is Said -- 1 The Earth as Starting Point -- 2 The Profound Meaning of the Landscape -- 3 There is Our Authenticity -- Codicil: For Those Who would Want to Overcome Modernity -- Landscape and Reality -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of People -- Index of Places -- Index of Terms.