著者

山岸 健

出版者

三田哲學會

雑誌

哲学 (ISSN:05632099)

巻号頁・発行日

no.97, pp.p89-120, 1994-07

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In a sense landscape is a proper spectacle of outer world, but it is also a state of mind. We are always involved in landscape-world as well as social world. All people are living in the midst of various landscape-world. Provence in southern France is not only a proper geographical space but also a unique cosmos which is ordered by several rivers, mountains, hills, fields, and la mer Mediterranee. Provence may be called as a unique historical cultural social world and also as a local landscape-world. We can understand Provence as a stage of people's life-long experiences or a everyday life-world. I think identity is in our everyday world-experiences: social experiences, spiritual experiences, and landscape-experiences. Although we can experience some aspects of Provence in every places or corners of this country, also we can find several proper aspects or phases of this Provence in many paintings or works by Cezanne or van Gogh. Provence may be in poems by Rene Char or phrases by Alphonse Daudet. Plaine de la Camargue is in a novel titled Malicroix written by Henri Bosco. Provence may emerge in various perspectives and lived experiences of people or travellers.