Gardens and the Passion for the Infinite

Theme: Gardens and the Passion for the Infinite; A.-T. Tymieniecka. Section I: Mirrors of Affectivity and Aesthetics: Gardens, Parks, and Landscapes as Seen by Theophile de Viau and La Fontaine; M.-O. Sweetser. Leonardo's Annunciation Hortus Conclusus and its Reflexive Heart; M. Landrus. The Gardens of Versailles and the Sublime; A.C. Canan. Garden in Stoppard, Austen, and Goethe; R.J. Wilson. Section II: Approaching Zen Gardens: A Phenomenological-Anthropological Approach; M. Katahira. Hatha Yogi: A Phenomenological Experience of Nature; A-.M. Bowery. In Search of Paradise: Gardens in Medieval French and Persian Poetry; J.K. Martin. The Chinese Attempt to Miniaturize the World in Gardens; Tsung-I. Dow. Aesthetics of Ancient Indian Sylvan Colonies and Gardens: Tagore's Reflexions; S. Ray. Section III: Opera as a Mirror of the Infinite: the Triumph of the Human Spirit over Natural Forces in Riders to the Sea; G.R. Tibbetts. Late Modernity & La Villette: 'Unsettling' the Object/Event Dialectic; T. Meehan. The Looking-Glass Self: Self-Objectivation Through the Garden; G. Backhaus. The Fourth Dimension of Art; M. Zurakowska. The Ruin Aesthetic: Constructing the Deconstructive Landscape A Didactic Poem; R. Rhodes. Section IV: Japanese Aesthetic Concepts and Phenomenological Inquiry; M. Meli. The Wisdom of the Mirror in Cocteau's Orphée; M. Statkiewicz. She Looks in the Mirror: The Ideological Shift of the Feminine Gaze in the Film The French Lieutenant's Woman; J. Dean. The Phenomenological Flaneur and Robert Irwin's 'Phenomenological Garden' at the Getty Center; P. Majkut. Section V: TheDream of Ascent and the Noise of Earth: Paradoxical Inclinations in Euripides's Bacchae, Shakespeare's The Tempest, and Stevens's 'Of Modern Poetry'; H. Pearce. What Time is it? Subverting and Suppressing, Conflating and Compressing Time in Commodified Space and Architecture; C. Krause Knight. Ingarden: Viewing Art as Existentially Autonomous; H. Meltzer. The Psychometaphor; J.C. Couceiro-Bueno. Index.