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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... Kant 213 COLLATION Mission impossible 239 ATLAS Uruk 251 Peniel 275 Thebes 311 Nicaea 331 REQUIEM Philadelphia 367 Uppsala 411 MEMORIALS Notes 441 Bibliography 505 Proper names 537 (In)definite descriptions 547 Acknowledgments 555 CONTENTS.
... 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 world of reality ...
... Kant put it in one of the most profound statements ever made: In the synthetic original unity of apperception, I am conscious of myself, neither as I appear to myself, nor as I am in myself, but only that I am. This representation is an ...
... Kant's concern—like mine—is obviously not with the specifi- cation of objective rules, but with judgment, especially with the “subjective principles which are derived, not from the quality of an object, but from the interest which ...
... Kant, he himself the most outstanding student of limits, theoretical philosopher in terms of the subject matter he thought about, practicing geographer in the language he thought within. C. From these preliminary incursions into Lands ...
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