Reimagining the garden as a vital metaphysical framework for understanding the intricate relationships between health, well-being, and the environment, the book proposes a holistic, ecologically sensitive model that integrates mind, body, nature, and community.
Reimagining the garden as a vital metaphysical framework for understanding the intricate relationships between health, well-being, and the environment, the book proposes a holistic, ecologically sensitive model that integrates mind, body, nature, and community.
The text offers the reader a transformative perspective that, transcending traditional dualisms, embraces the atmospheric sense of deep interconnectedness between individuals, communities, and the natural world. Through a blend of philosophical analysis, autoethnographic narratives, and cultural reflections, the authors, proposing a transgressive metaphysical model for personal and communal engagement with the processes of life, revise the idea of health as lack of illness, redefining it as flourishing. Such garden-inspired metaphysics promotes a dynamic, inclusive understanding of health, balancing modern medical approaches with a profound attunement to the rhythms of nature.
Atmospheric Health, Nature, and Well-being is an ideal resource for scholars, students, and other professionals in philosophy, environmental studies, health sciences, and cultural studies, as well as policymakers, urban planners, and anyone interested in innovative approaches to health, well-being, and the environment.
Just a Little. An Introduction. Part One: Back to the Garden (Towards
Theory).
1. Outcasts of the Garden: Uncertainty as Inspiration
2. From the
Garden of Eden to Project House
3. If Health Were a Cloud Part Two:
Atmospheric Health Practices (Autoethnologies).
4. Sharing the (Common)Wealth
of the Garden
5. In Search of the Garden of the Isles
6. Bhvan: The Thai
Forest Tradition Revisited Part Three: Towards a New Metaphysics
7.
Friluftsliv: the Cultural Practice of Attunement
8. Walking Through
Atmospheres
9. Toward the Metaphysics of the Garden Conclusions: On Health
and Its (Not So) Obvious Connections.
Dariusz Kubok, D.Litt., PhD, is a full professor and Director of the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. His research focuses on ancient philosophy, especially Greek epistemology and ontology, with particular emphasis on such problems as apeiron and peras in Presocratic philosophy, the Parmenidean thought, or forms of criticism in the classical tradition. Author of Criticism, Skepticism, and Zeteticism in Early Greek Philosophy, he also edits the journal Folia Philosophica.
Marcin Fabjaski, PhD, philosopher and therapist, specializes in Buddhism and Stoicism. A Harvard Divinity School Buddhist Ministry Fellow, he merges Eastern and Western philosophy, incorporating them into his meditative and therapeutic practice. He has authored twelve books, including Embodied Nature and Health. Fabjaski directs the Apennine School of Philosophy in Italy and teaches at the University of Silesia, exploring the application of philosophy to everyday life.\
Pawe Jdrzejko, PhD, D.Litt., is an Associate Professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland, and faculty member at "Sapienza" University of Rome, Italy. Author of over 200 publications, he is also Co-Editor in Chief of Review of International American Studies. His research areas include literary theory and philosophy, the intersections of cognitive experience and creative activity, and 19th century American literature. Jdrzejko, the past President of the International American Studies Association (20212023), is also an ocean-going yachtmaster and active musician.
