Rousseau’s Herbarium, or The Art of Living Together
In his botanical writings, Jean-Jacques Rousseau repeatedly returns to the idea that botanising exercises our faculty of attentive observation and teaches us to “see well.” Through botanical practice, we learn to transfer our attention from the self to what lies outside it and, specifically, to perc...
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Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2023-03-01
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Series: | Open Cultural Studies |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2022-0167 |