Abysmal : a critique of cartographic reason / Gunnar Olsson.
By: Olsson, Gunnar
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TextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007Description: xii, 553 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cmISBN: 0226629309 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780226629308 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century | Philosophy, Modern -- 21st century | Cartography | Rhetoric | ReasonDDC classification: 190 LOC classification: B804 | .O47 2007Online resources: Table of contents only | Contributor biographical information | Publisher description Summary: People rely on reason to navigate the abstract world of human relations in the same way they rely on maps to traverse the physical world. This work offers a critique of the way human thought and action have become 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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Includes bibliographical references (p. [505]-536) and indexes.
People rely on reason to navigate the abstract world of human relations in the same way they rely on maps to traverse the physical world. This work offers a critique of the way human thought and action have become 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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