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Publisher
MIT Press
Language
English
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"The Metamorphosis of Plants, originally published in 1790, was Goethe's first major attempt to describe what he called in a letter to a friend "the truth about the how of the organism." Inspired by the diversity of flora he found on a journey to Italy, Goethe sought a unity of form in diverse structures. He came to see in the leaf the germ of a plant's metamorphosis - "the true Proteus who can hide or reveal himself in all vegetal forms" - from the...
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Historia Hermeneutica. Series Studia volume 2
Publisher
W. de Gruyter
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
Deutsch
Author
Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"In this thesis, I argue that the current advances in landscape science, especially those rooted in phenomenology, allow landscape scientists to further develop a new narrative of the landscape as a living entity. By bringing Goethe's phenomenological approach into contemporary landscape ecology, ecologists can identify the formative properties of landscape and find better ways to heal the relationship between humanity and nature while facing our...