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Abysmal : a critique of cartographic reason / Gunnar Olsson.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Olsson, Gunnar, 1935-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy, Modern--20th century.
- Philosophy, Modern.
- Philosophy, Modern--21st century.
- Cartography.
- Rhetoric.
- Reason.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (568 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- DESIRES NON- SUPPRESSED
- PRELUDE
- MAPPINGS
- INSTRUMENTS
- IMAGINATIONS
- COLLATION
- ATLAS
- REQUIEM
- MEMORIALS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [505]-536) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786612538575
- 9781282538573
- 1282538578
- 9780226629322
- 0226629325
- OCLC:
- 609863574
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