Introduction
1.Significance of Research
2.Content, Research Questions and Methodology
3.The Metamorphosis of Freedom as a Concept
4.Evaluation of French Enlightenment in the 20th Century
5.Desert de Retz: A Garden of All Times and Places
Chapter �� Desert de Retz
1.Where Did the Name Come From
2.The Garden: Construction and Features
3.The Owner: Personality and His Circles
4.History of Garden after the French Revolution
Chapter �� Changing Tides of Aesthetics
Chapter �� Garden of Resurrected Nature and Reconstructed Freedom
1.Desert de Retz: A Garden of Nature
2.Sentimental Representation of Nature as Social Ethos
3.French Philosophical Ideas on Nature and Natural Law
4.The Concept of Freedom in French Enlightenment
Chapter �� Garden of All Times and Places and Useful Freedom
1.Fabriques of All Times and Places
2.Embracing All Times and Places since Mid-18th Century
3.Implication of Changed World View for Freedom
Chapter �� Garden of Imagined Otherness and Self-Centered Freedom
1.Historical Other: the Broken Column
2.Geographical Other: the Chinese House
3.Implication of the "Other" for Freedom
Conclusion
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