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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... holy Apsu , in the Chamber of Destinies , their son Marduk is conceived , the most awe- some being ever to be . 7 When his father saw him he beamed with pride and his heart was filled with joy . In deed : He made him so perfect that his ...
... Holy Virgin from the rank of “ Mother of God ” to “ Mother of Jesus ” had the further consequence that Christ must have two natures , one divine the other human , the two distinguishable not by empirical observation but by mental ...
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