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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
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.
kali's review against another edition
4.0
4.5*
Young details the inner lives of a number of influential authors such as Voltaire, Rousseau, Orwell, Colette and Dickinson, and their relationships with their gardens and nature. A garden philosophically represents the conjunction of humanity and nature, and in this book Young shows the ways that these authors understood themselves, their beliefs of how the world worked, and their place within it, through contemplation and reflection in their gardens. I have always found a symbiosis between my own writing and gardening -- a way to anchor my thoughts, to form some coherent order, and to cull distractions.
Young details the inner lives of a number of influential authors such as Voltaire, Rousseau, Orwell, Colette and Dickinson, and their relationships with their gardens and nature. A garden philosophically represents the conjunction of humanity and nature, and in this book Young shows the ways that these authors understood themselves, their beliefs of how the world worked, and their place within it, through contemplation and reflection in their gardens. I have always found a symbiosis between my own writing and gardening -- a way to anchor my thoughts, to form some coherent order, and to cull distractions.
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