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Books by or edited by David Seamon

 

2001   Frederic Church’s Olana: Architecture and Landscape as Art, main essay by James A. Ryan, with contributing essays by Franklin Kelly, David Seamon, & Karen Zukowski; David Seamon, editor. Hendersonville, NY: Black Dome Press.

 

1998  Goethe's Way of Science: A Phenomenology of Nature, edited with Arthur Zajonc. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

          Table of Contents

          Goethe, Nature, and Phenomenology: An Introduction, by David Seamon

 

1993  Dwelling, Seeing and Designing: Toward a Phenomenological Ecology, editor. Albany, New York:    State University of New York Press.

          Table of Contents

          Dwelling, Seeing, and Designing: An Introduction, by David Seamon

 

1993  Elementary Systematics: A Way for Understanding Wholes, by J. G. Bennett; David Seamon, editor. Santa Fe: Bennett Books.

          Editor's Introduction

 

1985   Dwelling, Place and Environment:  Toward a Phenomenology of Person and World, edited with Robert Mugerauer. Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff. Reprinted in softcover by Columbia University Press, New York, 1989. Reprinted in hardcover with a new editors’ introduction, by Krieger Press, Malabar, Florida, 2000.

          Editors' Introduction to the New Edition, by David Seamon and Robert Mugerauer

 

1984  Environmental Perception and Behavior: Inventory and Prospect, edited with Thomas Saarinen and James Sell. Chicago: University of Chicago Department of Geography Series, No. 209.

 

1980   The Human Experience of Space and Place, edited with Anne Buttimer. London: Croom Helm.

 

1979   A Geography of the Lifeworld: Movement, Rest and Encounter. New York: St. Martin's Press.

          This book presents a "phenomenology of environmental experience" and is reproduced below.

          Table of Contents and Preface

          Part I: Seeing Anew [chaps. 1-2]

          Part II: Movement in the Geographical World [chaps. 3-7]

          Part III: Rest in the Geographical World  [chaps. 8-11]

          Part IV: Encounter with the Geographical World [chaps. 12-16]

          Part V: Searching Out a Whole [chaps. 17-21]

          Appendix A: Selected Observations from Clark Environmental Experience Groups

          Appendix B: Commentaries on the Clark Environmental Experience Groups

          Appendix C: Organizing an Environmental Experience Group

          References [not yet completed in Web format]

 

 

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