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Abysmal (Hardcover)
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Abysmal (Hardcover)
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People 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.
A spectacular reading of Western philosophy, religion, and
mythology that draws on early maps and atlases, Plato, Kant, and
Wittgenstein, Thomas Pynchon, "Gilgamesh," and Marcel Duchamp,
"Abysmal" is itself a minimalist guide to the terrain of Western
culture. Olsson roams widely but always returns to the problems
inherent in reason, to question the outdated assumptions and fixed
ideas that thinking cartographically entails. A work of ambition,
scope, and sharp wit, "Abysmal" will appeal to an eclectic
audience--to geographers and cartographers, but also to anyone
interested in the history of ideas, culture, and art.
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