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Abysmal : a critique of cartographic reason / / Gunnar Olsson



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Autore: Olsson Gunnar <1935-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Abysmal : a critique of cartographic reason / / Gunnar Olsson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (568 p.)
Disciplina: 190
Soggetto topico: Philosophy, Modern - 20th century
Philosophy, Modern - 21st century
Cartography
Rhetoric
Reason
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [505]-536) and indexes.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- DESIRES NON- SUPPRESSED -- PRELUDE -- MAPPINGS -- INSTRUMENTS -- IMAGINATIONS -- COLLATION -- ATLAS -- REQUIEM -- MEMORIALS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Sommario/riassunto: 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.A spectacular reading of Western philosophy, religion, and mythology that draws on early maps a
Titolo autorizzato: Abysmal  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-53857-8
9786612538575
0-226-62932-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910820948603321
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