Humanist Geography An Individual's Search for Meaning

Name: Humanist Geography An Individual's Search for Meaning
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ISBN: 9780983497813

ISBN-10: 0983497818

ISBN-13: 9780983497813

Edition: 2012

Authors: Yi-Fu Tuan

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For more than fifty years, Yi-Fu Tuan has carried the study of humanistic geography—what John K. Wright early in the twentieth century calledgeosophy, a blending of geography and philosophy—to new heights, offering with each new book a fresh and often unique intellectual introspection into the human condition. His latest book,Humanist Geography, is a testament of all that he has learned and encountered as a geographer. In returning to and reappraising his previous books, Tuan emphasizes how the study of humanist geography can offer a younger generation of students, scholars, and teachers a path toward self-discovery, personal fulfillment, and even enlightenment. He argues that in the…

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List price: $26.50
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: George F. Thompson
Publication date: 9/21/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English



Acknowledgments


To Be Human



Getting Educated



Chongquing



Sydney



Oxford



Berkeley



Humanism, Temporal Direction, and Progress



Self, Community, and World



Isolated Selves and Bonding



Segmentation and Self



The City as a Moral Universe



Frailties and Evils



The Seven Deadly Sins



Other Evils



Individualism



Human Capabilities and Potential



What the Senses Can Offer



What the Mind Can Offer



The Individual



The Individual vs. the Group: Particularity vs. Oneness



Am I Real? Do I Matter?



Equality and Inequality



Progress Considered One More Time



Individual Destiny: A Fantasy



Parting Thoughts



Becoming Whole


Notes


Index


About the Author