The reorganization of geographic knowledge around 1800 -- The aesthetic origin of modern geography -- The philosophical origin of modern geography -- Orientation : figurations of oriented space -- Dwelling in space : figurations of cultural landscape -- Dwelling in time : figurations of geohistory
Summary
Tang traces the emergence of the geographic paradigm in modern Western thought in the decades around 1800. This period represents an extraordinary intellectual threshold, a time when European society invented new conceptual strategies for making sense of itself. The book brings to light geography as one of the most important of these conceptual strategies. Its inquiry revolves, first of all, around the rise of geographic science, as it is in this science that the geographic imagination crystallizes. The second part offers a systematic study of the key spatial categories of the modern geographic imagination, including orientation, cultural landscape, and geohistory
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-342) and index
