A Geographical Guide to the Real and the Good

ISBN-13: 9780415944854 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 336 str.

Robert Sack

Opis

As humans we create and transform the world around us. Our houses, cities, nations and rooms: these places all reflect our thoughts and feelings on what we think reality ought to be. In this text, the geographer Robert Sack argues for places that expand our awareness of reality and open our eyes to the variety and complexity of the world. Simply, A Geographical Guide to the Real and the Good constructs a geographical theory of morality based on the concept of space and place. Using historical and contemporary failures of good and moral places to illustrate his theory, this book should force readers to see our everyday surroundings in a new way.

Recenzje

"This is an amazing piece of work. It is nothing less than an attempt at providing a geographical theory of morality based around the concept of place that Sack has developed in his previous writing." -- John Agnew, author of Geopolitics and Human Geography
"Featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education's New Scholarly Books section, May 2, 2003."

Spis treści

Preface, INTRODUCTION, Chapter 1. Geography, the Real, and the Good, Chapter 2. The Power of Place, PART I. INSTRUMENTAL JUDGMENTS, Chapter 3. Situatedness and Relativism, Chapter 4. Situatedness and Absolutism, PART II. INTRINSIC JUDGMENTS, Chapter 5. The Theory, Chapter 6. Geopsychological Dynamics, Chapter 7. Geosocial Dynamics, POSTSCRIPT, Chapter 8. The Problematic and Moral Theory, Notes, Index

O autorze

Robert Sack is the Bascom Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is the author of numerous books.