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Islandology : geography, rhetoric, politics /
Islandology is a fast-paced, fact-filled comparative essay in critical topography and cultural geography that cuts across different cultures and argues for a world of islands. The book explores the logical consequences of geographic place for the development of philosophy and the study of limits (Gr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Defining islands and isolating definition
- Horizontal and vertical
- Animate swimmers and inanimate floaters
- Material substance and state of matter
- Cities in straits
- Naming and sovereignty
- Utopias and laboratory hypotheses
- Politics, philosophy, epic drama
- The distracted globe
- Island words
- Dire straits
- Liberty
- Hamlet is Germany
- The region of illusion
- Building for a future
- Postamble.