كتاب Town And Country

In the 1940s, HJ Massingham, documentor of rural England, described the concept of "picturesque" as a "giant worm that had trailed its slime" across the countryside. In the late 1990s the debate was alive as ever with the Countryside Alliance (lead mainly by the pro-hunting lobby) complaining that city dwellers' ignorance was destroying rural traditions. In fact, hunting is a tiny part of the conflicts troubling the countryside. Town And Country brings together leading academics, environmentalists, historians, anthropologists, urban planners, farmers, journalists and politicians to discuss the dilemmas in depth. The 28 essays question many ingrained ideas. The book debunks the image of the farm family, discusses heritage culture and tackles a multitude of issues such as car culture, organic farming, rural housing shortages, animal rights, self-sufficiency, commuter villages, conservation, new towns and lack of public transport. It wonders how long Britain will be able to retain its unique landscape of higgledy-piggledy, misshapen fields before the land is bulldozed into the angular, characterless, industrial-agriculture landscape of other European countries. Town And Country explores countryside issues from all angles, analysing the views of everyone from The Soil Association to The Movement for Middle England. Rather than just highlighting the problems, it suggests solutions. It also points out that though urbanites may have romantic, unrealistic notions of quaint country life, the rural population's view of unfriendly, polluted, greedy city life can be just as stereotyped. --Sarah Champion
روجر سكروتون - روجر فيرنون سكروتن ‏، فيلسوف وكاتب إنجليزي وُلِد في 27 فبراير 1944، عضو الجمعية الملكية للأدب، زميل في الأكاديمية البريطانية، مُتخصص في فلسفة الجمال والفلسفة السياسية، لاسيما في تعزيز الآراء المحافظة التقليديّة.❰ له مجموعة من الإنجازات والمؤلفات أبرزها ❞ Kant: A Very Short Introduction ❝ ❞ Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition ❝ ❞ Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left ❝ ❞ An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy ❝ ❞ الجمال ❝ ❞ Art and Imagination ❝ ❞ A Short History of Modern Philosophy ❝ ❞ Green Philosophy: How to Think Seriously About the Planet ❝ ❞ Animal Rights and Wrongs ❝ الناشرين : ❞ جميع الحقوق محفوظة للمؤلف ❝ ❞ المركز القومي للترجمة ❝ ❱
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