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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... Immanuel Kant could claim that the ideas of space and time are not merely “ intuitions ” but “ a priori intuitions , ” the seedbed of the synthetic a priori . Memory is consequently meaning accumulated and culture transferred , 6 the ...
... Immanuel Kant , he himself the most outstanding student of limits , theoretical phi- losopher in terms of the subject matter he thought about , practicing geog- rapher in the language he thought within . C. From these preliminary ...
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