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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... book was supported by a grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Stockholm. isbn-13 (cloth): 978-0-226-62930-8 isbn-10 (cloth): 0-226-62930-9 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Olsson, Gunnar, 1935– Abysmal : a critique of ...
... book included , one should know that even though the tragic developments often made me furious , they never got me depressed . On the contrary , for in my youth- ful excitement they presented the social sciences with a tremendous chal ...
... book . Now the arguments must speak for themselves , albeit with the tacit understanding that everything I have to say is deeply rooted in the past . In deed I am often less impressed by the splendid analyses of today than by the ...
... book eventually will have to say has in a sense already been shown, in the same moment of now and then, in the same place of here and there. Every age is retrospective. The cosmological constellations flash back and forth, not the least ...
... book eventually will have to say has in a sense already been shown , in the same moment of now and then , in the same place of here and there . Every age is retrospective . The cosmological constellations flash back and forth , not the ...
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