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What is the effect of light as it measures the seasons? How does light leave different traces on the terrain-on a Pacific Island, in the Aegean Sea, high in the Alps, or in the forest? John Sallis considers the expansiveness of nature and the range of human vision in essays about the effect of light...

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Main Author: Sallis, John, 1938- (Author)
Other Authors: Vallega, Alejandro A. (Illustrator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2014.
Series:Studies in Continental thought.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:What is the effect of light as it measures the seasons? How does light leave different traces on the terrain-on a Pacific Island, in the Aegean Sea, high in the Alps, or in the forest? John Sallis considers the expansiveness of nature and the range of human vision in essays about the effect of light and luminosity on place. Sallis writes movingly of nature and the elements, employing an enormous range of philosophical, geographical, and historical knowledge. Paintings and drawings by Alejandro A. Vallega illuminate the text, accentuating the interaction between light and environment.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 157 pages) : color illustrations
ISBN:9780253013033
0253013038

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