Geography and the Human Spirit
Published on 25. July 2023
304 pages
978-1-4214-4855-8 (ISBN)
Description
What does it mean to dwell? Every civilization has a story to tell, according to Anne Buttimer, and exploring those stories brings fresh light to modern ideas about the relationship between humanity and its environment. In Geography and the Human Spirit, Buttimer ranges widely from Plato to Barry Lopez, from the Upanishads to Goethe, taking an interdisciplinary look at the ways in which human beings have turned to natural science, theology, and myth to form visions of the earth as a human habitat.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
39 s/w Abbildungen
39 Illustrations, black and white
File size
9,10 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4214-4855-8 (9781421448558)
DOI
10.56021/9780801843389
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Geography and the Human Spirit
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04/2003
Johns Hopkins University Press
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Johns Hopkins University Press
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Persons
Anne Buttimer is a professor of geography at University College, Dublin. Yi-Fu Tuan is a professor emeritus of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His many books include Escapism, available from Johns Hopkins.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Phoenix, Faust, Narcissus
- Chapter One: Meaning, Metaphor, Milieu
- Life Journeys in the Practice of Geography
- Meaning
- Cognitive Style and Metaphor
- Milieu
- Horizon and Integration
- Chapter Two: The Drama of Western Humanism
- Phoenix, Faust, Narcissus
- Humanistic Geography
- Mediterranean Musings
- Humanitas (Poesis)
- Humanist Modes of Knowing (Logos)
- The Humanities (Paideia)
- Humanitarianism (Ergon)
- The Twentieth-Century Contextual Turn
- Part II. Four World-views in Western Geography
- Introduction: The Way of Metaphor
- Chapter Three: World as Mosaic of Forms
- Center and Horizon
- A Correspondence Theory of Truth
- Realism versus Nominalism in Medieval Times
- Renaissance Formism
- Enlightenment Geography
- Kantian Foundations and the Chorological Imperative
- Mosaic and American Geography
- Chapter Four: World as Mechanical System
- Physis, Nous, and the Nature of Things
- From Organic Whole to Mechanical Systems
- Mechanization of the World Picture
- Deus ex Machina
- A Causal Adjustment Theory of Truth
- Geography and "Systems"
- Chapter Five: World as Organic Whole
- Classical Foundations of Organicism
- An Infinity of Worlds
- Cosmos, Human History, and Geography
- A Coherence Theory of Truth
- The Appeal of the Organism
- Organism, Poesis, and Human Identity
- Chapter Six: World as Arena of Events
- From Sophistry to Pragmatism
- An Operational Theory of Truth
- Divergent Streams in Europe and America
- Geography and Arena: Meaning, Metaphor, Milieu
- Narcissus, Twilight, and Arena
- Conclusion. Concluding Hopes: Narcissus Awake
- Appendix: Dialogue Project Recordings, 1978-1989
- Notes
- References
- Index
