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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... John Philoponus . His first name suggests that he came from a Christian family , his second ( in effect not a proper name but an ( in ) definite descrip- tion ) that he was a “ lover of work . ” Given his large output this nickname ...
... John Philoponus (born around 490, dead sometime in the 570s) devoted his life to the Christianization of Hellenistic thought in general and to the mummification of Ptolemy's Almagest in particular.2 Already at a young age he ...
... John Philoponus ( born around 490 , dead sometime in the 570s ) devoted his life to the Christianization of Hellenistic thought in general and to the mummification of Ptolemy's Almagest in particular.2 Already at a young age he ...
... Philoponus ' groundbreaking revisions of the scientific dogma ( including his novel theories of vacuum , time and ... John Philoponus prominent among them — argued that in Christ's person there is a single nature which constitutes a ...
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