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First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
The work of Jean-Luc Nancy has been taken up by writers ranging
from Jacques Derrida to Claude Lefort and all his major works have
been translated into English. As many struggle to find meaning at
the end of philosophy, his writing has provided the impulse for
contemporary philosophical debates around the questions of
community, the political and freedom. Situating his work in an
explicitly contemporary context - the collapse of communism, the
Gulf War, the former Yugoslavia - Nancy has forced the reader to
rethink nothing less than what "doing" philosophy entails. The
result has been his theory of a loss of "sense", which far from
being catastrophic, allows us to think sense, art and community
anew. This volume explores this and other ideas in Nancy's work and
provides insights into one of the most contemporary philosophers
writing in the 20th century. The full range of Nancy's work as a
philosopher of the "contemporary" is considered, allowing us to see
his engagement with Hegel, Marx, Nietzche, Heidegger, Bataille and
Derrida.
This book, first published under the title "Urban Geography - A
First Approach" serves as an introduction to the field of urban
geography and offers a balance between studies of systems of cities
on the one hand and specific cities on the other. It is designed to
provide a broad introduction to the study of urban geography as
part of a discipline which has experienced rapid change in the past
two decades and also to demonstrate ways in which geographers have
become far more involved in the more general interdisciplinary
field of urban studies.
In the mid-nineteenth century the eyes of western European
explorers were firmly fixed on advancing inland from former
maritime colonies in the Americas, Africa, the Indian sub-continent
and Australasia, their motives often being inextricably bound up
with concerns of imperial politics and commerce. Simultaneously,
further east, Russians resumed their perceived mission to civilise
Asia, following their own country's humiliation during the Crimean
War. From a springboard of Siberian territories acquired gradually
over the previous three centuries, discovery and expansion radiated
from the Imperial Russian Geographical Society, founded in 1845 and
incorporating initiatives drawn from descendants of immigrant
French and German scientists who themselves inspired a new
generation of liberal intellectuals. A key personality in that
movement was the Society's librarian and secretary of its physical
geography section, P. P. Semenov (1827-1914), a member of a minor
gentry family who had been tutored by a pupil of Linnacus and who
had studied under Ritter and von Humboldt at Berlin during a tour
of Europe in 1853-4. From them he conceived the notion of
travelling to the virtually unknown lands of Central Asia,
ostensibly to verify opinions on the existence there of active
volcanoes and glaciers. In reality his ambition was to penetrate
beyond the Kazakh steppe and to reach the fabled Celestial
Mountains, the Tian'-Shan' range, which constituted the politically
sensitive border between Russia and China and the equally hostile
buffer zone of Muslim kahnates. Accompanied only by a serf servant,
in May 1856 Semenov embarked on a 18-month journey from St
Petersburg through Kazan' to Semipalatinsk, and thence via the
Altai to the newly established Russian settlement of Vernoe (later
Alma-Ata, now Almaty). Subsequently he received a Cossack escort on
his trek into the high plateaus and ridges surrounding Issyk-kul',
to 'the very heart of Asia'. Throughout his
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