Interpreting Environments: Tradition, Deconstruction, Hermeneutics

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University of Texas Press, 1995 - Social Science - 186 pages

In this pioneering book, Robert Mugerauer seeks to make deconstruction and hermeneutics accessible to people in the environmental disciplines, including architecture, planning, urban studies, environmental studies, and cultural geography.

Mugerauer demonstrates each methodology through a case study. The first study uses the traditional approach to recover the meaning of Jung's and Wittgenstein's houses by analyzing their historical, intentional contexts. The second case study utilizes deconstruction to explore Egyptian, French neoclassical, and postmodern attempts to use pyramids to constitute a sense of lasting presence. And the third case study employs hermeneutics to reveal how the American understanding of the natural landscape has evolved from religious to secular to ecological since the nineteenth century.

 

Contents

Jungs Quest for Wholeness
1
2352
15
3
37
Hermeneutic Retrieval
57
The Hidden and Disclosure
105
Postscript
117
Notes
127
Index
181
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Robert Mugerauer is Professor of Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington.

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