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Humans have long considered backyards—both real and imaginary—for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. Those backyards may be as a long way away from everyday fact as Gilgamesh’s garden of the gods or as in close proximity to as our very own backyard, but in their very conception and the grades they keep of human care and attention and cultivation, backyards stand as restorative, nourishing, necessary havens.
With Landscapes, Robert Pogue Harrison graces visitors with a thoughtful, wide-ranging study of the countless ways backyards evoke the human being condition. Moving from from the backyards of historical philosophers to the backyards of homeless people in modern day New York, he shows how, again and again, the garden has dished up as a check against the damage and losses of record.  The ancients, points out Harrison, viewed backyards as both a model and a spot for the laborious self-cultivation and self-improvement that are essential to serenity and enlightenment, a link that has sustained throughout the ages. The Bible and Qur’an; Plato’s Academy and Epicurus’s Garden Institution; Zen rock and Islamic carpet backyards; Boccaccio, Rihaku, Capek, Cao Xueqin, Italo Calvino, Ariosto, Michel Tournier, and Hannah Arendt—all come into play as this work explores the ways that the idea and fact of the garden has informed human being considering mortality, order, and power.
 
Alive with the echoes and quarrels of Western thought, Landscapes is a fitting continuation of the intellectual journeys of Harrison’s before classics, Forests and The Dominion of the Deceased. Voltaire famously urged us to cultivate our backyards; with this persuasive level, Robert Pogue Harrison reminds us of the nature of this responsibility—and its own long lasting importance to mankind.
 
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