The Seasons: Philosophical, Literary, and Environmental Perspectives

Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Thinking through the Seasons
	The Role and Relevance of the Seasons
	Seasonal Complexity and the Need for Interdisciplinarity
	Seasons as Natureculture: Poetry, Literature, Art, and Myth
	Philosophical, Literary, and Environmental Perspectives
		Environmental Time
		Phenomenology and Poetics
		Anthropology and the Arctic
		Everyday Aesthetics
		Decolonizing Literature
		Notes
Environmental Time
	1 The Four Seasons and the Rhythms of Place-Based Time
		Sowing the Seasons into Place
		The Notion of the Season
		The East
		Kinds of Time
			Placing Time
			Repetition and Rhythm
			Kairos and Chronos
			Scales of Time
			Mythic Time
		Challenges to the Four Seasons Model
		Temporal Discontinuities and Disruptions
		The Values of a Seasonal Framework
			Storied Residence and Restor(y)ation
			Inside-Out Affects
			The Elemental
			An Alternative to “Nature”
			Sustainability and the Seasons
		Conclusion
		Notes
2 The Seasons Embodied: The Story of a Plant
	Method
	Early Spring—The Warming, Flowering Bud
	Movement
	Withdrawing and Preparing
	Conclusion
	Notes
Phenomenology and Poetics
	3 A Poetic Phenomenology of the Seasons
		Introduction
		Key Concepts
		An Idealized Sketch of the Four Temperate Seasons
			In Late Winter
		Conclusion
		Notes
4 Hölderlin, Heidegger, and Seasonal Time
	The Seasons as a Historically Determined Phenomenon of Human Existence and A-theoretical Thinking
	The Seasons and Machination as the Fundamental Feature of Being
	The Simplicity of the Year: Hölderlin, Heidegger, and the World as Fourfold
		On the Conversation between Thinking and Poetizing
		The Seasons in Hölderlin’s “Latest” Poems
			Higher Humanity
		The Seasons and the World as Fourfold
	Prospect: The Seasons—and a Transformed Understanding of Metaphysics
	Notes
5 Toward a Phen(omen)ology of the Seasons: The Emergence of the Indigenous Weather Knowledge Project
	Introduction: Revising the Australian Seasons
	Seasons of Things: A Phenomenology of Dwelling With/in
	Seasons of Our Inheritance: The Appearance of the Gregorian Model
	Seasons of the Southwest: The Endemic Calendar of the Nyoongar
	Seasons of Our Dwelling: The Indigenous Weather Knowledge Project (IWKP)
	Conclusion: Living with Seasonal Diversity in Australia
	Notes
Anthropology and the Arctic
	6 Arctic Summer
		Fire and Ice
		Norwegian Summer
		Affirmation
		Å
		Nomadism
		Sámi
		Seasons and Periodicity
		Summer Migration
		Eight Seasons
		The Lemming Year
		Vertical and Horizontal
		Winter in the Summer
		Seasons, Species, and Sagas
		Place and Displacement
		No Seasons
		Outer Space and Home
		Notes
7 Seasonal Affective Order: The Passage of Sense in Circumpolar Religion
	Affective and Natural Orders
	Rhythmanalysis and the Critique of Everyday Life in the Modern World
	Mesology and the Philosophical Dignity of the Sensible
	The Rhythmanalysis of Eskimo Societies by Mauss and Beuchat
	Some Passages of Sense
	Notes
Everyday Aesthetics
	8 The Almanac Projects: Modeling the Seasons through the Material World
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		Notes
9 The Cycle of Seasons: The Temporal Structure of Fashion
	Introduction
	Basic Temporal Features of Fashion
	Change, Novelty, and the Perception of Presence in Fashion
	The Seasons as Temporal Structure in Fashion
		Change and the Cycle of Seasons
		Acceleration
		The Emphatic Present and Anticipation
	Notes
Decolonizing Literature
	10 The Nature and Culture of the Seasons: Homage to Henry David Thoreau
		Spring
		Summer
		Winter
		Autumn
		Aesthetics
		Notes
11 The Decolonized Pastoral: Kinsella, Thoreau, and the Seasons
	Introduction
	Deliberate Living and Radical Pastoral
	Ecological Empiricism
	Comportment Toward Nature
	Pragmatism as Orientation
	Inherent Pragmatism
	Images and Scale (Interpretative Frameworks)
	Spring and Images
	Conclusion
	Notes
Suggestions for Further Reading
Contributors
Index