Philosophy in the Garden
Publisher: Melbourne University Publishing
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780522857139
Subjects: Philosophy and ethics; Gardening and horticulture
Description: Why did Marcel Proust have bonsai beside his bed? What was Jane Austen doing in Chawton, coveting an apricot? How was Friedrich Nietzsche inspired by his Italian Gedankenbaum, 'thought tree'? In Philosophy in the Garden, Damon Young reveals some of literature's most intimate relationships: between authors and their gardens.