Abysmal: A Critique of Cartographic ReasonPeople 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. |
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... things - in - themselves . Just as the geneticists keep repeating that the human body is programmed for a life distinctly different from our own , so Bertrand Russell used to say that our ordinary language conveys the metaphysics of the ...
... things outside me . " 15 To explicate this thesis of the necessary unity of consciousness is to specify the translation function through which I mirror myself in you and you in me . Kant's concern — like mine — is obviously not with the ...
... things - and - relations ? These were the cryptic orders handed down to me by the Secret Service Headquarters , a set of commands as impossible to fulfill as not to accept : · • lay bare the familiar of the unknown ; find the principles ...
... things, a foundational treatise on politics rather than religion. Its premise is that in the beginning of the beginning nothing has yet been formed, because in the beginning of the beginning no things have yet been named. All that ...
... things, a foundational treatise on politics rather than religion. Its premise is that in the beginning of the beginning nothing has yet been formed, because in the beginning of the beginning no things have yet been named. All that ...
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