Blinding Polyphemus: Geography and the Models of the World - Couverture rigide

Farinelli, Franco

 
9780857423788: Blinding Polyphemus: Geography and the Models of the World
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0857423789 ISBN 13 : 9780857423788
Editeur : Seagull Books London Ltd, 2018

Synopsis

Today, we believe that the map is a copy of the Earth, without realizing that the opposite is true: in our culture the Earth has assumed the form of a map. In Blinding Polyphemus, Franco Farinelli elucidates the philosophical correlation between cultural evolution and shifting cartographies of modern society, giving readers an interdisciplinary study that attempts to understand and redefine the fundamental structures of cartography, architecture, and the notion of "space."

Following the lessons of nineteenth-century critical German geography, this is a manual of geography without any map. To indicate where things are means already responding, in implicit and unreflective ways, to prior questions about their nature. Blinding Polyphemus not only takes account of the present state of the Earth and of human geography, it redefines the principal models we possess for the description of the world: the map, above all, as well as the landscape, subject, place, city, and space.

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À propos de l?auteur

Franco Farinelli is professor of human geography and head of the Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies at the Università di Bologna, and the president of the Italian Geographers Association.

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Éditeur
Seagull Books London Ltd
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0857423789
ISBN 13 
9780857423788
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
192
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
Koch-Chemie GmbH
https://www.koch-chemie.com

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