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chairmanbernanke's review against another edition
3.0
Good excerpts and recommendations for further reading.
annarella's review against another edition
5.0
It was an engrossing and interesting read and I was happy to discover the relationship between various authors and their garden.
It is well written and I loved what I read.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Edelweiss for this ARC, all opinions are mine.
It is well written and I loved what I read.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Edelweiss for this ARC, all opinions are mine.
scribepub's review against another edition
A gentle dig for ideas about how to live — this book will grow your mind and put a glow in your cheeks.
Deborah Levy, author od Swimming Home
Erudite, yet witty and accessible, [Philosophy in the Garden] is intellectual history at its most completely pleasurable.
Oliver Burkeman, author of The Antidote
A brilliant philosophical and literary meditation that helps us rethink our relationship with the natural world — and with ourselves.
Roman Krznaric, author of Empathy and How to Find Fulfilling Work
This is a gardening book that takes readers not on a walk around great estates but on a tour of great minds…It's a lovely extension on the notion that gardens make you contemplative and in working with the soil you see life's big picture.
The Daily Telegraph
[T]hought-provoking … fine book.
Gardens Illustrated
[L]ucid and entertaining … an enjoyable and erudite addition to a burgeoning literature.
David E. Cooper, Los Angeles Review of Books
Deborah Levy, author od Swimming Home
Erudite, yet witty and accessible, [Philosophy in the Garden] is intellectual history at its most completely pleasurable.
Oliver Burkeman, author of The Antidote
A brilliant philosophical and literary meditation that helps us rethink our relationship with the natural world — and with ourselves.
Roman Krznaric, author of Empathy and How to Find Fulfilling Work
This is a gardening book that takes readers not on a walk around great estates but on a tour of great minds…It's a lovely extension on the notion that gardens make you contemplative and in working with the soil you see life's big picture.
The Daily Telegraph
[T]hought-provoking … fine book.
Gardens Illustrated
[L]ucid and entertaining … an enjoyable and erudite addition to a burgeoning literature.
David E. Cooper, Los Angeles Review of Books
missflamingo's review against another edition
4.0
Philosophy in the Garden is a thoughtfully cultivated collection of short biographies.
From Emily Dickinson to Voltaire, author Damon Young offers a glimpse into the minds of 13 writers together with his insights into who they were and why they wrote as they did. This slim volume is a canny introduction to some great minds and their ideas. Each chapter provides a portrait of a writer with the author’s perspective on how their ideals transplanted to their relationship with the natural world.
Discover why Jane Austen wrote so few of her novels while residing in Bath, and how Emily Dickinson’s “blooms were more renowned than her stanzas” during her lifetime. If a reader wishes to dig further Young has included a comprehensive bibliography in the final chapter. Available at the Noosaville Library and highly recommended.
@SuzAnne King and featured in the NoosaToday paper.
From Emily Dickinson to Voltaire, author Damon Young offers a glimpse into the minds of 13 writers together with his insights into who they were and why they wrote as they did. This slim volume is a canny introduction to some great minds and their ideas. Each chapter provides a portrait of a writer with the author’s perspective on how their ideals transplanted to their relationship with the natural world.
Discover why Jane Austen wrote so few of her novels while residing in Bath, and how Emily Dickinson’s “blooms were more renowned than her stanzas” during her lifetime. If a reader wishes to dig further Young has included a comprehensive bibliography in the final chapter. Available at the Noosaville Library and highly recommended.
@SuzAnne King and featured in the NoosaToday paper.
viragohaus's review against another edition
4.0
Philosophers occupy a diffident space in Australian public life. No antipodean philosopher dominates debates here in the manner of Europeans like Slavoj Žižek or Bernard-Henri Lévy, gesticulating freely between quick swallows of black coffee. Perhaps the Anglophone reluctance to teach philosophy prior to university explains this; we lack the context of a philosophical education to quite trust how philosophers might frame things.
Read the rest of my review here: The Newtown Review of Books
Read the rest of my review here: The Newtown Review of Books