Picture 1 of 1
Stock photo
Picture 1 of 1
Stock photo
The Italian List Ser.: Blinding Polyphemus : Geography and the Models of the World by Franco Farinelli (2018, Hardcover)
Rarewaves (627350)
97.9% positive feedback
Price:
US $35.25
ApproximatelyRM 151.53
+ $3.99 shipping
Returns:
30 days return. Buyer pays for return shipping. If you use an eBay shipping label, it will be deducted from your refund amount.
Condition:
Oops! Looks like we're having trouble connecting to our server.
Refresh your browser window to try again.
About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherSeagull Books
ISBN-100857423789
ISBN-139780857423788
eBay Product ID (ePID)221471937
Product Key Features
Number of Pages192 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameBlinding Polyphemus : Geography and the Models of the World
SubjectCartography, Earth Sciences / Geography, Human Geography, General
Publication Year2018
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPhilosophy, Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Science
AuthorFranco Farinelli
SeriesThe Italian List Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight17.8 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2019-328618
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsThrough an incredible command of historical sources and classical analogies, the Italian geographer Franco Farinelli traces the victory of the two-dimensional map and the conception of perspectival space that it represents all the way back to Anaximander, if with a particular call-out to Ptolemy's cartography, the rediscovery of which in Renaissance Europe was significant in further reducing the understanding of much of what today we call 'geography' to 'cartographic reason'. It is good to see that one of the most astute and accomplished geographers of his generation has finally had one of his landmark books translated into English.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal526.09
SynopsisToday, we believe that the map is a copy of the Earth, without realizing that the opposite is true: in our culture the Earth has assumed the form of a map. In Blinding Polyphemus , Franco Farinelli elucidates the philosophical correlation between cultural evolution and shifting cartographies of modern society, giving readers an interdisciplinary study that attempts to understand and redefine the fundamental structures of cartography, architecture, and the notion of "space." Following the lessons of nineteenth-century critical German geography, this is a manual of geography without any map. To indicate where things are means already responding, in implicit and unreflective ways, to prior questions about their nature. Blinding Polyphemus not only takes account of the present state of the Earth and of human geography, it redefines the principal models we possess for the description of the world: the map, above all, as well as the landscape, subject, place, city, and space.
LC Classification NumberGA201
Be the first to write a review
