ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with what is perhaps the boldest possible proposition concerning the relation between landscape and phenomenology. It offers a particular topic to address: 'landscape and phenomenology'. Romanticism has undoubtedly profoundly influenced senses of landscape in several different registers. To study landscape from a phenomenological perspective involves foregrounding lived, embodied experience and perception. In sum, a series of anxieties continue to cluster around landscape phenomenology, which appears, to some at least, to be at once too intimate and too abstract. A tension between 'ideological' and 'phenomenological' understandings of landscape is a key motif of Landscape Theory. An inaugurating moment for much landscape phenomenology was the publication, in 1993, of Tim Ingold's essay 'The Temporality of the Landscape'. The editorial introductions to three collections of scholarly landscape writing – Jeff Malpas's The Place of Landscape, Karl Benediktsson and Katrin Lund's Conversations with Landscape and Catherine Brace and Adeline Johns-Putra's Process: Landscape and Text.
