312 Pages
10 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
336 Pages
10 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
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In this original and ambitious work, the renowned geographer Robert Sack argues for places that expand our awareness of reality and that increase the variety and complexity of reality. The joint application of these two criteria is the basis of a geographically informed moral theory that emphasizes the role of altruism. As well, it sheds light on the connection between the real and the good.... Read more
Preface, INTRODUCTION, Chapter 1. Geography, the Real, and the Good, Chapter 2. The Power of Place, PART I. INSTRUMENTAL JUDGMENTS, Chapter 3. Situatedness and Relativism, Chapter 4. Situatedness and Absolutism, PART II. INTRINSIC JUDGMENTS, Chapter 5. The Theory, Chapter 6. Geopsychological Dynamics, Chapter 7. Geosocial Dynamics, POSTSCRIPT, Chapter 8. The Problematic and Moral Theory, Notes, Index
Biography
Robert Sack is the Bascom Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is the author of numerous books.
"This is an amazing piece of work. It is nothing less than an attempt at providing a geographical theory of morality based around the concept of place that Sack has developed in his previous writing." -- John Agnew, author of Geopolitics and Human Geography
"Featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education's New Scholarly Books section, May 2, 2003."
