Abysmal: A Critique of Cartographic ReasonUniversity of Chicago Press, 15 de març 2010 - 584 pàgines People rely on reason to think about and navigate the abstract world of human relations in much the same way they rely on maps to study and traverse the physical world. Starting from that simple observation, renowned geographer Gunnar Olsson offers in Abysmal an astonishingly erudite critique of the way human thought and action have become deeply immersed in the rhetoric of cartography and how this cartographic reasoning allows the powerful to map out other people’s lives. |
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... Philosophy, Modern —20th century. 2. Philosophy, Modern—21st century. 3. Cartography. 4. Rhetoric. 5. Reason. I. Title. b804.o47 2007 190—dc22 2006016776 o The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the ...
... philosophy may be read as an inves- tigation of how this grammatical bridge of the “and” is constructed and thereby of how the abyss between the worlds of being and understanding is negotiated. And in the invagination of that abyss lies ...
... philosopher, poet, chronologist, astronomer, mathematician, they ranked him first in no field, second in many. “Beta” was the nickname they gave him, a poisonous gift wrongly administered to a man much greater than themselves.19 At ...
... philosophy.”3 The most remarkable aspect of this man and his revolutionary philosophy is that it grew out of the conviction that the universe is the single creation of a single God; to be precise, he identified Aristotle's conception of ...
... philosophy . ” 3 The most remarkable aspect of this man and his revolutionary philos- ophy is that it grew out of the conviction that the universe is the single creation of a single God ; to be precise , he identified Aristotle's ...
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