Yi-Fu Tuan established a global reputation for deepening the field of geography by examining its moral, universal, philosophical, and poetic potentials and implications. In Romantic Geography, he engages the wide-ranging ideas that made him one of the most influential geographers of our time. In this elegant meditation, he considers the human tendency—stronger in some cultures than in others—to veer away from the middle ground of common sense to embrace the polarized values of light and darkness, high and low, chaos and form, mind and body. In so doing, venturesome humans can find salvation in geographies that cater not so much to survival needs (or even to good, comfortable living) as to the passionate and romantic aspirations of their nature. Romantic Geography is a paean to the human spirit, which can lift us to new heights but also plunge us into the abyss.
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Publisher
University of Wisconsin PressYear
2014Print ISBN
9780299296841
9780299296803
eBook ISBN
9780299296834
Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Overture
- 1 - Polarized Values
- 2 - Earth and Its Natural Environments
- Interlude: Wholesome but Ordinary
- 3 - The City
- 4 - The Human Being
- Coda
- Notes
- Illustration Credits
- Index
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