TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tuan,Yi-fu
ED  - Johns Hopkins University.
TI  - Escapism
SN  - 0801859263
AV  - BF575.E83 T83 1998
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Baltimore, Md.
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Escape (Psychology)
KW  - Nature
KW  - Culture
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-231) and index; 1; Earth; / Nature and Culture --; 2; Animality; / Its Covers and Transcendence --; 3; People; / Disconnectedness and Indifference --; 4; Hell; / Imagination's Distortions and Limitations --; 5; Heaven; / The Real and the Good
N2  - 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
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