{"product_id":"in-praise-of-the-earth-a-journey-into-the-garden-hardback-9781509567898","title":"In Praise of the Earth; A Journey into the Garden (Hardback) 9781509567898","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eIn Praise of the Earth\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Journey into the Garden\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eByung-Chul Han (Author), Daniel Steuer (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509567898, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 12 September 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e160 pages\u003cbr\u003e20.8 x 14 x 2 cm, 0.318 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2025 \u003ci\u003eBig Other\u003c\/i\u003e Book Award for Nonfiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a book of exquisite beauty filled with the scents and colours of flowers and quiet changing of seasons in the author's Berlin garden. But more than that, it is a book of profound wisdom, a calm and deeply welcome antidote to the harshness of our troubled world.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEsther Woolfson, author of \u003ci\u003eCorvus\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Steeped in German philosophy and high culture, Han's reflections... will yield for patient readers subtle and lovely insights... This poetic volume will nourish gardeners and nature lovers.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWeekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Han turns so completely toward wholeness that his writing seems an alien arrival: the work of a being that loves wholly, uselessly, openly... It would be good and wise to enter that other time with Han's voice and try to live there for a little while.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFront Porch\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Republic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Han's book, written in his characteristically crystalline prose, and sparklingly translated from the German by Daniel Steuer, calls august witnesses (Martin Heidegger, Rainer Maria Rilke, Friedrich Nietzsche, Bertolt Brecht and many others), to testify to the truths of what he discovered in the garden.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles Foster, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSupplement\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIn Praise of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e is a philosophical song, which finds in the most delicate blossom a resounding call for care. 'Flowering is rapture,' Han writes and reading this book too, is a rapturous experience.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Conversation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe earth is not a dead, mute landscape but an eloquent, living being. Sometimes it just takes a spade, a packet of seeds, and a pair of sturdy boots to realize it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe philosopher Byung-Chul Han spent three springs, summers, autumns, and winters in his secret garden in Berlin, devoting himself to daily gardening in all weathers. For Han, gardening is a form of silent meditation, a lingering in stillness. It gives you a different sense of time. Every plant has its own time that is specific to it, and the garden is a space in which these multiple temporalities overlap and cut across one another. The longer he worked in the garden, the more respect he developed for the earth and for its enchanting beauty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGardening taught him what care for others means. Each organism has its own consciousness of time passing; each organism lives in its own micro-universe. Step by step, Han receded from himself and the world, moving closer and closer to an exuberant, divine nature which we are increasingly in danger of losing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough this rich meditation on plants, soil, gardening, and time, Han unfolds a way of relating to and tending the earth that is in sharp contrast to the brutal, incessant exploitation of our planet that we see all around us today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlso available as an audiobook.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Winterreise\u003cbr\u003e Winter Garden\u003cbr\u003e Time of the Other\u003cbr\u003e Back to the Earth\u003cbr\u003e Romanticizing the World\u003cbr\u003e Winter-flowering Cherry\u003cbr\u003e Winter Aconites and Witch Hazel\u003cbr\u003e White Forsythia\u003cbr\u003e Anemones\u003cbr\u003e Camellias\u003cbr\u003e Willow Catkins\u003cbr\u003e Autumn Crocuses\u003cbr\u003e Plantain Lilies (Hosta)\u003cbr\u003e On Happiness\u003cbr\u003e Beautiful Names\u003cbr\u003e Victoria Amazonica\u003cbr\u003e Colchicum Autumnale\u003cbr\u003e Diary of a Gardener\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e List of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20%5BHP%5D%22\"\u003eHP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52449471922456,"sku":"9781509567898","price":14.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509567898.jpg?v=1785201070","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/in-praise-of-the-earth-a-journey-into-the-garden-hardback-9781509567898","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}