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This chapter is oriented by Heidegger’s Fourfold of Earth and Sky, Mortals and Immortals as the place of human dwelling. It identifies the various forms that enter into landscaping. It emphasizes the creation of a landscaping that lends itself to meditation and inserts us back into nature.
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For a development of these notions, see my “Being and Manifestness,” International Philosophical Quarterly, vol. XXXV, no. 4, Issue no. 140, (Dec., 1995), and for further historical and conceptual grounding see the first part of my A Path into Metaphysics (New York: State University of New York Press, 1991), and, later, Placing Aesthetics: Reflections on the Philosophic Tradition (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1999).
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See “Introduction to ‘What Is Metaphysics ?’ The Way Back into the Ground of Metaphysics,” W. Kaufmann , trans., Martin Heidegger , Pathmarks, W. McNeill ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 277–90.
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“Origin of the Work of Art,” (henceforth OWA), Poetry, Language , and Thought, A. Hofstadter, trans. (New York: Harper, 1971) (henceforth PLT).
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Martin Heidegger, Introduction to Metaphysics , G. Fried and R. Polt, trans. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), 26.
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The earlier treatment is in Heidegger’s 1935 essay , OWA, in PLT, 63. For the notion of the Play of the Fourfold, see “The Thing,” also in PLT, 172ff.
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“Memorial Address” in Discourse on Thinking, J. Anderson and H. Freund. trans. (New York: Harper and Row, 1966), p. 47.
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Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae, (Green Bay, WI; Aquinas Institute 2012), II-II, q. 101, a. 1, citing Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics , Hippocrates G. Apostle trans. (Grinell, Iowa: The Peripatetic Press, 1984), IX, 12, 1162a 4ff. Cicero, De Inventione (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1949), 2.
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PLT, 145ff.
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See The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays , W. Lovitt, trans. (New York: Harper and Row, 1977), 17.
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“Why Do I Stay in the Provinces?,” T. Sheehan, trans. Listening, vol. 12 (1977), 123; “Hebel—Friend of the House ,” B. Foltz and M. Heim (trans.), Contemporary German Philosophy, vol. 3, 93.
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See Wybe Kuitert, Scenes and Taste in the History of Japanese Garden Art (Amsterdam: J. C. Gieben, 1988).
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Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or The Whale. New York: Modern Library, 2000.
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Cf. Hegel’s master–slave relation in Phenomenology of Spirit , A. Miller, trans. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977), §§178–96, 111–8.
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Wood, R.E. (2017). Domestic Landscaping. In: Nature, Artforms, and the World Around Us. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57090-7_3
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