TY - JOUR
AU - Mathias Obert
AB - Abstract From a transcultural stance the contribution explores an access to the problem of nature and time which relies on our embodied experience of our environment. By means of a phenomenological investigation into distinctive features of Japanese gardens, such as rocks and trees, the specific temporalities incorporated in these elements become elucidated. The intention is to invalidate the Eurocentric opposition of nature and culture, as the “natural” environment grows together with “cultural” activities, and cannot be separated from human engagement, in the case of Japanese gardening. There “nature” cannot become objectified or conceptually determined. It can only be disclosed by our bodily getting involved in an environment, encompassing a peculiar way of “becoming time”. This mode of temporalization exhibits significant similarities with Martin Heidegger’s Gelassenheit . Therefore, time and nature in a Japanese garden both request and set forth, a specific existential attitude towards our life environment.
BT - Yearbook for Eastern and Western Philosophy
DA - 07/2024
DO - 10.1515/yewph-2024-0012
DP - DOI.org (Crossref)
IS - 1
LA - en
N2 - Abstract From a transcultural stance the contribution explores an access to the problem of nature and time which relies on our embodied experience of our environment. By means of a phenomenological investigation into distinctive features of Japanese gardens, such as rocks and trees, the specific temporalities incorporated in these elements become elucidated. The intention is to invalidate the Eurocentric opposition of nature and culture, as the “natural” environment grows together with “cultural” activities, and cannot be separated from human engagement, in the case of Japanese gardening. There “nature” cannot become objectified or conceptually determined. It can only be disclosed by our bodily getting involved in an environment, encompassing a peculiar way of “becoming time”. This mode of temporalization exhibits significant similarities with Martin Heidegger’s Gelassenheit . Therefore, time and nature in a Japanese garden both request and set forth, a specific existential attitude towards our life environment.
PY - 2024
SN - 2196-5897, 2196-5889
SP - 141
EP - 151
ST - Japanese Gardens
T2 - Yearbook for Eastern and Western Philosophy
TI - Japanese Gardens: Time of Letting – Time of Growth
UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/yewph-2024-0012/html
VL - 7
Y2 - 2026/07/17/12:58:43
ER -