 |
|
|
Item Details
| Title:
|
PLACING THE ENLIGHTMENT
THINKING GEOGRAPHICALLY ABOUT THE AGE OF REASON |
| By: |
Charles W. J. Withers |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
|
£35.00 |
|
We believe that this item is permanently unavailable, and so we cannot source
it.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ISBN 10: |
0226904059 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780226904054 |
| Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
24 July, 2007 |
| Pages: |
336 |
| Description: |
The Enlightenment was the age in which the world became modern, challenging tradition in favor of reason, freedom, and critical inquiry. This work contends that the Age of Reason was not only a period of pioneering geographical investigation but also an age with spatial dimensions to its content and concerns. |
| Synopsis: |
The Enlightenment was the age in which the world became modern, challenging tradition in favor of reason, freedom, and critical inquiry. While many aspects of the Enlightenment have been rigorously scrutinized - its origins and motivations, its principal characters and defining features, its legacy and modern relevance - the geographical dimensions of the era have until now largely been ignored. "Placing the Enlightenment" contends that the Age of Reason was not only a period of pioneering geographical investigation but also an age with spatial dimensions to its content and concerns. Investigating the role space and location played in the creation and reception of Enlightenment ideas, Charles W. J. Withers draws from the fields of art, science, history, geography, politics, and religion to explore the legacies of Enlightenment national identity, navigation, discovery, and knowledge. Ultimately, geography is revealed to be the source of much of the raw material from which philosophers fashioned theories of the human condition.Lavishly illustrated and engagingly written, "Placing the Enlightenment" will interest Enlightenment specialists from across the disciplines as well as any scholar curious about the role geography has played in the making of the modern world. |
| Illustrations: |
13 colour plates, 26 halftones, 3 line drawings |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
No Cheese, Please!
A fun picture book for children with food allergies - full of friendship and super-cute characters!Little Mo the mouse is having a birthday party.
|
My Brother Is a Superhero
Luke is massively annoyed about this, but when Zack is kidnapped by his arch-nemesis, Luke and his friends have only five days to find him and save the world...
|
|
|
|
|