Geography and the Human Spirit - Couverture rigide

Buttimer, Anne

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0801843383 ISBN 13 : 9780801843389

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993

Synopsis

What does it mean to dwell? Every time 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 this book, Buttimer ranges 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. Buttimer begins by placing her study in the context of Western intellectual and cultural history, identifying various patterns of Western thought, particularly in the context of humanism. She then interprets these patterns using the three mythopoetical characters of the Phoenix, Faust and Narcissus. Buttimer shows how the cry for freedom, symbolized by the Phoenix, often illuminates a forgotten aspect of life or thought pushed into the background by the structuring force symbolized by Faust or by the critical voice symbolized by Narcissus. Buttimer uses these symbols to identify four ways in which the world has been perceived both in the Western cultural tradition and in other traditions throughout history: the world as mosaic of forms, as a mechanical system, as an organic whole, or as an arena of spontaneous events. Although postmodern thinkers have seen the struggle between Faust the builder and Narcissus the evaluator as insoluble, Buttimer argues that the impulse of the Phoenix can bridge the gaps between disciplines and world views in order to bring the goals and methods of geography and humanism together.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Anne Buttimer is a professor of geography at University College, Dublin.

From 1983 until retiring in 1998, Yi-Fu Tuan was the John K. Wright and Vilas Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. One of the most important and influential cultural geographers of our time, Tuan has been the recipient of many awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Cullum Medal of the American Geographical Society, and the Lauréat d'Honneur of the International Geographical Union. His previous books include Cosmos and Hearth: A Cosmopolite's Viewpoint; Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes, and Values; Dominance and Affection: The Making of Pets; and Who Am I? An Autobiography of Emotion, Mind, and Spirit.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801843383
• ISBN 13: 9780801843389
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible