The grounding of landscape as a motive

The goal of proposed thesis is basic delimitation and grounding of landscape as a motive (landscape-motive) concept. Landscape-motive is set against 'abstract landscape' of natural sciences, and against 'lived landscape'. Its grounding is developed on Heidegger's understanding of man-world relationship and on his concept of spaciousness. Among other sources of diverse social sciences the most important are Heidegger's Being and time and Patočka's study Space and its problems. Questions directly concerning landscape are mostly inspired by M. Andrews' Landscape and Western Art. Interdisciplinarity influences also methodology based on reading of various landscape related social-scientific texts through heideggerian concepts. Last chapter is to a great extent based on introspective speculations seeking support of several thematically realated philosophical theories