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1 online resource (viii, 535 pages) : illustrations |
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This study proposes that geographic theory can provide an explanation of how self-reflective consciousness is the basis of the relationship among self, society, and nature. It then applies this principles to how the social is constituted. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Machine generated contents note: pt. One Introduction -- ch. 1 Introduction and Overview -- 1.1. Continuities, Discontinuities, Gaps, and The Gap -- 1.2. Outline of the Argument -- pt. Two The Gap -- ch. 2 Facing The Gap -- 2.1. Reduction -- 2.1.1. Scientific Reduction -- 2.1.2. Rhetorical Reduction -- 2.2. Searle's Classification -- 2.3. Definition -- 2.3.1. General Version: Incomplete "Internal" Bridge -- 2.3.2. Specific Version: Reasons and Causes -- 2.3.3. Extending the Specific Version -- 2.3.4. The Gap, Simple Action, and the Core Self -- 2.4.Comparison to Searle's Position -- 2.5. Contradictions within the No-Gap Argument -- 2.6. The Core Self and Attributes of Self -- 2.7. Routinization -- 2.8. Political Implications -- 2.9. Science, Evolution, Religion, and Morality -- ch. 3 Not Facing the Gap -- 3.1. Surface and Depth -- 3.2. Self-Society -- 3.2.1. Toward Scientific Reduction -- 3.2.2. Toward Rhetorical Reduction -- 3.3. Society-Nature -- 3.3.1. No-Gap Approaches -- 3.3.2. Society -- Nature from the Natural Side -- 3.3.3. Society -- Nature from the Social Side -- 3.4. Tools and Bracketing -- 3.5. Why the Gap is Not Faced -- pt. Three The Theory -- ch. 4 Level I -- 4.1. Place and Geography -- 4.2. Tools and Place-Making -- 4.3. Place as a Tool -- 4.4. Structure and Dynamics of Level I -- 4.4.1. Simultaneity, Redundancy, Flexibility, and Simple Spatial Information -- 4.4.2. Spatial Information and Dual Directionality -- 4.4.3. Nonreduction -- 4.4.4. Place and the Social -- 4.4.5. Knowledge and Roles -- 4.4.6. Social Power -- 4.4.7. Routinization -- 4.4.8. Social-Structural "Causality" -- 4.4.9. Raw Social Power -- 4.5. Society-Nature -- 4.5.1. Nature as Part of the Social -- 4.5.2. Society's Effect on Nature as a Result of Incomplete Closure and Dual Directionality -- 4.5.3. Nature's Effect on Us -- 4.5.4. What, Then, Is Nature? -- 4.5.5. Cyborgs and the Body -- 4.5.6. Social Construction of Nature, Hybridization of Nature and Society -- 4.6. Geography -- 4.6.1. Place-Making and Geography's Interest in Nature -- 4.6.2. Physical (or Natural) Space -- 4.6.3. The Social Construction of Space and Spatiality -- 4.6.4. Scale and Place as Scale Invariant -- 4.6.5. Continuities and Discontinuities -- 4.6.6. Spaces of Flows and Places as Nodes and Networks -- 4.6.7. Surface and Depth: Disengagement and Engagement -- 4.6.8. Human Territoriality -- 4.7. Summary -- ch. 5 Level II -- 5.1. Realms and Domains -- 5.1.1. Empirical Domain -- 5.1.2. Meaning ("r's" That Refer to Thought and Feeling and Reflection but That Are Not Spatial Rules and Instructions for Action) -- 5.1.3. Nature (Bracketed and Unbracketed "c's") -- 5.1.4. Social Relations ("r's" as Social Rules and Obligations without Spatial Instructions for Action) -- 5.2. The Weave of Threads -- 5.3. The Loom -- 5.3.1. In/Out of Places Rules ("r's" with Spatial Instructions for Action Backed Up by "c's") -- 5.3.2. Spatial Interactions or Flows ("c's", including Those That Convey "r's") -- 5.3.3. Surface/Depth or Appearance/Reality ("r's" That Raise Questions about Meaning but Offer No Rules or Instructions for Action) -- 5.3.4. Dynamics of the Loom and Threads -- 5.4. Transgressions and Unweaving -- 5.5. Nonreduction -- 5.6. Dispersion of the Self -- 5.7. Summary of Expansion of Level I to Level II -- 5.8. Moral Domain -- 5.8.1. Truth -- 5.8.2. Justice -- 5.8.3. The Natural -- 5.9. The Aesthetic Domain -- 5.10. Points of View and Perspectives -- 5.10.1. Perspectives and Symbolic Systems -- 5.10.2. Ritual/Magic -- 5.10.3. Perspectives, Enactments, and the Realm of Meaning -- 5.10.4. Weave and Unweave -- 5.11. Implications of Level II -- 5.11.1. From Core Self to Attributes -- 5.11.2. Place and Identity -- 5.11.3. Situated Self -- 5.11.4. Sense of Place -- 5.11.5. Thick and Thin -- 5.11.6. Tools for Thickening (including Ritual and Magic) and for Thinning -- 5.11.7. Places and Memory -- 5.11.8. Mapping Reductive Arguments -- 5.11.8.1. Reduction through Nature -- 5.11.8.2. Reduction through Meaning -- 5.11.8.3. Reduction through Social Relations -- 5.11.8.4. Reduction of Self, with Place Doing the Reducing -- 5.11.8.5. Reduction among the Domains -- 5.11.9. Mapping Other Reductive and Nonreductive Geographical Perspectives and Debates -- 5.11.10. Toward a General Geographic Perspective -- 5.11.11. Mapping Lefebvre, Nodes, Networks, Spaces of Flows, and Latour's Hybridization -- 5.11.12. Place and Power, the Power of Place, and the Fenneman Diagram -- ch. 6 Level III -- 6.1. Surface Continuities and Discontinuities -- 6.2. Depth and the Need for Theory -- 6.3. Back to Levels II and I -- ch. 7 Time and the Geographic Problematic -- 7.1. The General Problem: The Gap, Physical Time, and Reflective Time -- 7.2. Geography's Connections of Space and Time That Do Not Face The Gap -- 7.3. The Theory and Time -- 7.3.1. Tendency toward the Static -- 7.3.2. Temporalities from Threads -- 7.3.3. Temporalities from the Loom -- 7.4. The Problematic and its Dynamics -- ch. 8 Instrumental Judgments -- 8.1. Reduction -- 8.2. Relativism And Absolutism -- 8.3. Support from Geographic Theory? -- 8.4. Living a Life Based on Instrumentalism -- ch. 9 Intrinsic Judgments -- 9.1. Core Argument -- 9.2. Expansion -- 9.2.1. The Real -- 9.2.2. Awareness -- 9.2.3. Variety and Complexity -- 9.2.4. The Good -- 9.2.4.1. Reality and Attractiveness of the Good -- 9.2.4.2. Good versus Moral -- 9.2.4.3. Beauty -- 9.2.4.4. Reason -- 9.2.4.5. An End in Itself -- 9.2.4.6. Intentions and Consequences -- 9.2.4.7. Privileging Awareness over Pain and Suffering -- 9.2.4.8. Altruism (and the Core Self) -- 9.2.4.9. Good Cannot Be Engineered -- 9.2.5. Evil, Weakness of Will, and Attraction of the Good -- 9.2.5.1. Increasing Awareness is an Effort of Will -- 9.2.5.2. Diminished Awareness Due to Weakness of will, Self-Deception, and Spatial Segmentation -- 9.2.5.3. Evil Not Done Willingly and Knowingly -- 9.3. Intrinsic Judgments as a Guide to the Good -- 9.3.1. Small Moves in the Right Direction -- 9.3.2. Numerous Paths to the Good -- 9.3.3. Intentions, Consequences, and Geographic Awareness -- 9.3.4. Altruism, Truth, Justice, and the Natural -- 9.3.4.1. Truth -- 9.3.4.2. Justice -- 9.3.4.3. The Natural -- 9.3.4.4. The Non-Relativity and Non-Absolutism of the Virtues, and Place-Making as a Gift -- 9.4. Evil -- 9.4.1. Vividness of Evil and Vagueness of Good -- 9.5. Geographic Impediments to Moral Progress -- 9.5.1. Spatial Relations, Distance, and Distribution -- 9.5.2.Compartmentalization and Moral Drift -- 9.6. Geography and Religion -- ch. 10 Some Social-Political-Economic Implications -- 10.1. Political -- 10.1.1. Intrinsic Democracy -- 10.1.2. Areal Representation -- 10.1.3. Membership -- 10.1.4. Right to Place and Right to a Particular Place -- 10.1.5. Democracy, Scale, and Spillovers -- 10.1.6. Public Places -- 10.2. The Economic -- 10.2.1. Theory of Value -- 10.2.2. Gift-Value -- 10.3. The Social -- 10.3.1. Social Justice -- 10.3.2. Making Institutions Geographically Aware -- 10.3.3. Education -- ch. 11 Coda and Possibilities. |
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Human geography.
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Human geography. |
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Geography -- Philosophy.
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Geography -- Philosophy. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Sack, Robert David. Geography as a tool for developing the mind. Lewiston [N.Y.] : Edwin Mellen Press, c2010 9780773413153 (DLC) 2010035317 (OCoLC)660161869 |
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9780773417281 |
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0773417281 |
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9780773413153 |
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0773413154 |
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