03118nam 22007214a 450 991079234920332120200520144314.01-282-53857-897866125385750-226-62932-510.7208/9780226629322(CKB)2670000000015078(EBL)515753(OCoLC)609863574(SSID)ssj0000356213(PQKBManifestationID)11248117(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000356213(PQKBWorkID)10349508(PQKB)11467386(StDuBDS)EDZ0000122499(MiAaPQ)EBC515753(DE-B1597)524991(OCoLC)746883579(DE-B1597)9780226629322(Au-PeEL)EBL515753(CaPaEBR)ebr10381152(CaONFJC)MIL253857(PPN)169331482(EXLCZ)99267000000001507820060522d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAbysmal[electronic resource] a critique of cartographic reason /Gunnar OlssonChicago University of Chicago Press20071 online resource (568 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-62930-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [505]-536) and indexes.Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- DESIRES NON- SUPPRESSED -- PRELUDE -- MAPPINGS -- INSTRUMENTS -- IMAGINATIONS -- COLLATION -- ATLAS -- REQUIEM -- MEMORIALS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTSPeople 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.A spectacular reading of Western philosophy, religion, and mythology that draws on early maps aPhilosophy, Modern20th centuryPhilosophy, Modern21st centuryCartographyRhetoricReasonreason, rationality, perspective, navigation, cartography, maps, mapping, geography, nonfiction, marcel duchamp, gilgamesh, thomas pynchon, wittgenstein, kant, plato, atlas, mythology, religion, philosophy, cognition, rhetoric, borders, science, earth sciences, space, place, perception, abstraction, understanding, truth, objectivity.Philosophy, ModernPhilosophy, ModernCartography.Rhetoric.Reason.190Olsson Gunnar1935-675443MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910792349203321Abysmal3765996UNINA