Hiding Places: Thoreau’s Geographies
| Autor: | John S. Pipkin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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| Zdroj: | Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 91:527-545 |
| ISSN: | 1467-8306 0004-5608 |
| Popis: | For Henry David Thoreau, penetrating landscape observation provided an unfailing point of departure for natural description, ecstatic contemplation, and violently paradoxical social commentary. His texts express, question, naturalize, and deploy many presuppositions about geographic order in the landscape. His writing life, ending in 1862, spanned a time when teleological explanations of the landscape were challenged by the gradual “detheologization” of scientific thought. The new views on the ultimate geographic role of Providence all made some room for empirical, proximate explanations of geography’s grand theme: the fit between humanity and the earth. The effect of Thoreau’s development from transcendental idealism to a penetrating yet fussy empiricism was to dissolve the unity of the human and natural worlds. His odd, shifting, rhetorical appropriation of place, his resistance to unqualified generalization, and his purported aversion to travel (outside of Concord) all contrast with the path geography ... |
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