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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... truth preservation for tying our premises and conclusions together ? Surely the most common purpose of human action is to topple truth , not to pre- serve it , to falsify rather than preserve what is now the case . Less a matter of ...
... truth and more in its power to convince . Finally , the third and most daring of the reconnaissance expeditions , here called IMAGINATIONS . In this extensive subsection of four chap- ters I try to explicate the techniques by which we ...
... truth about places which are not well - known to everyone . " 10 But time plays its own game of truth and consequences and today Pytheas is considered neither a madman nor a liar . What in hindsight makes him so remarkable is that he ...
... truth ” correspond to degrees of “ being ” ; more precisely , the highest point on the Line marks the highest truth , everything lower being merely diluted versions of the Good of the good . Transferred to the world of Plotinus this ...
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