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Symbolic Landscapes presents a definitive collection of
landscape/place studies that explores symbolic, cultural levels of
geographical meanings. Essays written by philosophers, geographers,
architects, social scientists, art historians, and literati, bring
specific modes of expertise and perspectives to this
transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary study of the symbolic level
human existential spatiality. Placing emphasis on the pre-cognitive
genesis of symbolic meaning, as well as embodied, experiential
(lived) geography, the volume offers a fresh,
quasi-phenomenological approach. The editors articulate the
epistemological doctrine that perception and imagination form a
continuum in which both are always implicated as complements. This
approach makes a case for the interrelation of the geography of
perception and the geography of imagination, which means that
human/cultural geography offers only an abstraction if indeed an
aesthetic geography is constituted merely as a sub-field.
Human/cultural geography can only approach spatial reality through
recognizing the intimate interrelative dialectic between the
imaginative and perceptual meanings of our landscapes/place-worlds.
This volume reinvigorates the importance of the topic of symbolism
in human/cultural geography, landscape studies, philosophy of
place, architecture and planning, and will stand among the classics
in the field.
Symbolic Landscapes presents a definitive collection of
landscape/place studies that explores symbolic, cultural levels of
geographical meanings. Essays written by philosophers, geographers,
architects, social scientists, art historians, and literati, bring
specific modes of expertise and perspectives to this
transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary study of the symbolic level
human existential spatiality. Placing emphasis on the pre-cognitive
genesis of symbolic meaning, as well as embodied, experiential
(lived) geography, the volume offers a fresh,
quasi-phenomenological approach. The editors articulate the
epistemological doctrine that perception and imagination form a
continuum in which both are always implicated as complements. This
approach makes a case for the interrelation of the geography of
perception and the geography of imagination, which means that
human/cultural geography offers only an abstraction if indeed an
aesthetic geography is constituted merely as a sub-field.
Human/cultural geography can only approach spatial reality through
recognizing the intimate interrelative dialectic between the
imaginative and perceptual meanings of our landscapes/place-worlds.
This volume reinvigorates the importance of the topic of symbolism
in human/cultural geography, landscape studies, philosophy of
place, architecture and planning, and will stand among the classics
in the field.
This volume's concept, 'ecoscape,' has been formed for the purpose
of comprehending the spatial configuration (geography) of an
ecosystem. Using this method, the contributors place emphasis not
on things, but on the spatial patternings of relations and
interrelations. Through the related notion of economy,
conceptualized as the management of the ecoscape, contributors
investigate ethical problems and value choices in light of the way
that we are contextualized in the world. By envisioning specific
environments as spatial processes of events composed of
interrelated patternings, the co-editors intend to provide a fresh
approach for framing the problems that beset our world.
This edited volume presents the life and thought of Kurt H. Wolff,
a Jewish refugee from Darmstadt, a student of Karl Mannheim,
practitioner of the sociology of knowledge, translator of the
classic works of Simmel, Durkheim, and Mannheim, and creator of the
radical existential sociology of surrender-and-catch, through
multiple modalities. Two interviews provide an autobiographical
portrait. Testimonies by close family members, friends, and
colleagues allow the reader a more intimate insight into his
subjectivity. Excerpts from a travelogue journal kept by his
spouse, Carla E. Wolff provide an understanding of how the Wolff's
interpreted their situation and times. Several chapters devoted to
explicating Wolff's place in the sociological tradition, especially
in light of his work in the sociology of knowledge. Several
chapters exhibit creative work in the further development of his
thought, especially concerning his surrender-and-catch. The thrust
of the book is to explicate Wolff's relation to the tradition and
to the orientation to which he belongs while at the same time to
exhibit how he develops a sociology of radical commitment. This
commitment can demand great existential risk in the quest to
uncover the universal in the unique-the creation of new meaning
(the catch) though the surrender. Wolff's hope is to find
possibilities for humankind that lead us out of the crises, to
which traditional scientia has been disappointingly ineffective.
This collection explores the various forms of narrative, semiotic,
and technological mediation that shape the experience of place.
From the East End of London to Navajo lands to Ground Zero, Lived
Topographies examines the great effect of language, mass media,
surveillance, and other incursions of the contemporary world on
topographical experience and description. Gary Backhaus and John
Murungi have assembled a wide array of scholars to provide an
interdisciplinary approach to this subject, giving this rich,
focused collection a unique perspective on the phenomenology of
place.
What is the connection between anthropology, philosophy, and
geography? How does one locate the connection? Can a juncture
between these disciplines also accommodate history, sociology and
other applied and theoretical forms of knowledge? In Earth Ways:
Framing Geographical Meanings, editors Gary Backhaus and John
Murungi challenge their contributors to find the location that
would enable them to bridge their "home disciplines" to
philosophical and geographical thought. This represents no easy
task. Essayists are charged with building a set of conceptual
bridges and what emerges is a unique co-joined topography; sets of
ideas united by a painstaking and rigorous interdisciplinary
framework. Earth Ways is a salient rendering of interdisciplinary
thought in contemporary humanities and social sciences scholarship.
The study of landscape and place has become an increasingly fertile
realm of inquiry in the humanities and social sciences. In this new
book of essays, selected from presentations at the first annual
meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Geography, scholars
investigate the experiences and meanings that inscribe urban and
suburban landscapes. Gary Backhaus and John Murungi bring
philosophy and geography into a dialogue with a host of other
disciplines to explore a fundamental dialectic: while our
collective and personal activity modifies the landscape, in turn,
the landscape modifies human identities, and social and
environmental relations. Whether proposing a peripatetic politics,
conducting a sociological analysis of building security systems, or
critically examining the formation of New York City's municipal
parks, each essay sheds distinctive light on this fascinating and
engaging aspect of contemporary environmental studies.
The thesis of incommensurability concerns the interrelation between
subjective culture and objective culture through which the
constitutive agency of chaos (incommensurability) emerges. The
objectivations/products, the constituents of objective culture,
carry their own Being, and this Being transcends the original
subjective expressivities/intentions. The constitutive agency of
this incommensurable interrelation becomes apparent in an age of
globalization where its effects become global, bringing about
dangerous socio-political volatilities. To illustrate, global
warming has been neither the expressive intention of subjective
culture nor a constituent of energy per se as an objectivated
product in the context of objective culture. It emerges in the
interrelation, an unforeseen incommensurability, a chaos in the
culture of energy that threatens the globe/world in various ways.
Incommensurability, the cultural form of chaos, is recognized as
dramatically foiling human instrumental rationality, spoiling its
hubris or belief in its own progress. The doctrine of
incommensurability shows that we can not know what we are doing
while we are doing it, for the empirical manifestations of chaos
are only knowable after the fact and its effects are unpredictable.
This book of essays is divided into two parts: the first dealing
with contemporary themes in subjective culture and the second with
those in objective culture. A few of the pressing topics treated in
this volume are: abstracted information of a computer-based society
versus locally-based, grounded knowledge, abstracted neo-liberal
economics versus place-grounded economics, the geo-politics of peak
oil, and the intensification of natural disasters as a consequence
of global warming reveal the tenuous character of the contemporary
world.
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