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Placing the Enlightenment: Thinking Geographically About the Age of Reason - Couverture rigide

Withers, Charles W. J.

 
9780226904054: Placing the Enlightenment: Thinking Geographically About the Age of Reason
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0226904059 ISBN 13 : 9780226904054
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2007

Synopsis

The Enlightenment was the age in which the world became modern, challenging tradition in favor of reason, freedom, and critical inquiry. While many aspects of the Enlightenment have been rigorously scrutinized - its origins and motivations, its principal characters and defining features, its legacy and modern relevance - the geographical dimensions of the era have until now largely been ignored. "Placing the Enlightenment" contends that the Age of Reason was not only a period of pioneering geographical investigation but also an age with spatial dimensions to its content and concerns. Investigating the role space and location played in the creation and reception of Enlightenment ideas, Charles W. J. Withers draws from the fields of art, science, history, geography, politics, and religion to explore the legacies of Enlightenment national identity, navigation, discovery, and knowledge. Ultimately, geography is revealed to be the source of much of the raw material from which philosophers fashioned theories of the human condition. Lavishly illustrated and engagingly written, "Placing the Enlightenment" will interest Enlightenment specialists from across the disciplines as well as any scholar curious about the role geography has played in the making of the modern world.

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À propos de l'auteur

Charles W. J. Withers is professor of historical geography at the University of Edinburgh. He is coeditor of Geography and Enlightenment and Geography and Revolution, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0226904059
ISBN 13 
9780226904054
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
336
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