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Tuan, Yi-fu, 1930-

Escapism / Yi-fu Tuan - xvii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-231) and index

Earth Animality People Hell Heaven / Nature and Culture -- / Its Covers and Transcendence -- / Disconnectedness and Indifference -- / Imagination's Distortions and Limitations -- / The Real and the Good 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

In prehistoric times, our ancestors began building shelters and planting crops in order to escape from nature's harsh realities. Today, we flee urban dangers for the safer, reconfigured world of suburban lawns and parks. According to Yi-Fu Tuan, people have always sought to escape in one way or another, sometimes foolishly, often creatively and ingeniously. Glass-tower cities, suburbs, shopping malls, Disneyland - all are among the most recent movements in our efforts to escape the constraints and uncertainties of life - ultimately, those imposed by nature

ISBN: 0801859263 9780801859267 0801865409 9780801865404 0965786374 9780965786379

Nat. Bib. No.: GB9903902 bnb

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Escape (Psychology)
Nature
Culture

LC Class. No.: BF575.E83 / T83 1998

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