Escapism / Yi-fu Tuan.

Main entry:

Tuan, Yi-fu, 1930-2022.

Title & Author:

Escapism / Yi-fu Tuan.

Publication:

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

Description:

xvii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
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.

Summary:

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.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0801859263 (alk. paper)
9780801859267 (alk. paper)
0801865409
9780801865404
0965786374
9780965786379

Subject:

Escape (Psychology)
Nature.
Culture.
Évasion (Psychologie)
Eskapismus
Kultur
Natur
Évasion (psychologie)
Comportement de fuite.
Relation homme-nature.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 205800
Call No.: BF575.E83 T8 1998
Status: Available

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