Cosmos and Hearth: A Cosmopolite's Viewpoint by Yi-Fu Tuan
Univ Of Minnesota Press | March 1, 1999 | English | ISBN: 0816627312 | 216 pages | PDF | 8 MB
In a volume that represents the culmination of his life's work in considering the relationship between culture and landscape, Tuan argues that "cosmos" and "hearth" are two scales that anchor what it means to be fully and happily human. Hearth is our house and neighborhood, family and kinfolk, habit and custom. Cosmos, by contrast, is the larger reality - world, civilization, and humankind.