Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Seeds of Discord
1. Natural Nature
Transitions or Simultaneity: A Political and Philosophical
Question
Problematizing "Transitions": Landscape Gardening
Classicism in Quotation Marks: An Iteration
Transitions: A Return
The French against the French Style
What Makes Nature Natural
The Exemplarity of Water
Repeating the English: A Rhetorical Graft
2. National Nature
English Resistances to the French
French Reactions: Defending Le Notre
French Reactions: Against Le Notre and the English Style
Deferring the "Point of Perfection": The New French
Garden (Natural Gardens)
Nationalism in Gardens
Nature as Liberty in English Treatises
Nature as Liberty in French Treatises
3. Trade Winds
Anglophobia
European Colonialism: Raynal's Histoire des deux Indes
Canada and Guiana in Raynal's Histoire des deux Indes
Communication: Alterity in Raynal
Communication: Diderot's Savages and Civilized
Communication: Of the Deaf-Mute
4. Philosophical Gardens
Colonizing Space
Scopophilia
Descartes and Locke
Repetition and Displacement: Condillac
Condillacian Effects: Attention
Condillacian Effects: Imagination, Memory, Reminiscence
Philosophical Gardens
Conclusion: The Future of the Garden/The Garden of the Future
The Garden in Movement in the History of Landscape Gardening
The Andre Citroen Park: "Sharing the Signature"
Garden without Man
Notes
Bibliography
Index