Patrick Geddes’s Intellectual Origins / / Murdo Macdonald.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Macdonald, Murdo,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 10 B/W illustrations

The intellectual background and cultural legacy of Patrick GeddesExplores Patrick Geddes’s Scottish intellectual background in depth for the first time, drawing on George Davie’s notion of the democratic intellectHighlights his insistence on the interdisciplinary importance of arts and sciences Considers his achievements from his pioneering work in Edinburgh and Dundee and his leadership of the Celtic revival, to his influence in Paris, London and IndiaPatrick Geddes is one of Scotland’s most remarkable thinkers of the late 19th and early 20th century. His environmental and cultural message endures today, but until now the Scottish context to his thinking has not been properly acknowledged. This book changes that, situating Geddes within a distinctly Scottish intellectual background, and exploring his substantial national and international advocacy of art, architecture, ecology, literature, planning, geography and Celtic studies.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Patrick Geddes and the Scottish Intellectual Tradition -- 2 Geography, History and Place -- 3 Arts, Crafts and Social Reform -- 4 Patrick Geddes, D’Arcy Thompson and the Early Years of University College Dundee -- 5 Education, Anarchism and Celtic Revival in Edinburgh -- 6 Manifestos in Word and Image -- 7 Models of Celticism -- 8 Interdisciplinarity and Cultural Revival -- 9 Paris 1900: Local Revival as Global Project -- 10 City Development as Interdisciplinary Project -- 11 Ecological Research in Dundee -- 12 Dramatising the Past and Informing the Future -- 13 Looking East -- 14 A Farewell Lecture -- Notes -- Appendix 1 Patrick Geddes: A Visual Primer in Ten Images -- Appendix 2 List of Murdo Macdonald’s Writings relating to Patrick Geddes and his Milieu -- Index