Geography and the Human Spirit

What does it mean to dwell? Every civilization has a story to tell, according to Anne Buttimer, and exploring those stories brings fresh light to modern ideas about the relationship between humanity and its environment. In Geography and the Human Spirit, Buttimer ranges widely from Plato to Barry Lopez, from the Upanishads to Goethe, taking an interdisciplinary look at the ways in which human beings have turned to natural science, theology, and myth to form visions of the earth as a human habitat.

Anne Buttimer is a professor of geography at University College, Dublin. Yi-Fu Tuan is a professor emeritus of geography at the University of Wisconsin--Madison. His many books include Escapism, available from Johns Hopkins.

List of Illustrations

vii

Foreword, by Yi-Fu Tuan

ix

Acknowledgments

xiii

Introduction

1

(10)

Part I. Phoenix, Faust, Narcissus

Chapter One Meaning, Metaphor, Milieu

11

(28)

Life Journeys in the Practice of Geography

11

(2)

Meaning

13

(6)

Cognitive Style and Metaphor

19

(10)

Milieu

29

(6)

Horizon and Integration

35

(4)

Chapter Two The Drama of Western Humanism

39

(38)

Phoenix, Faust, Narcissus

41

(4)

Humanistic Geography

45

(3)

Mediterranean Musings

48

(2)

Humanitas (Poesis)

50

(5)

Humanist Modes of Knowing (Logos)

55

(6)

The Humanities (Paideia)

61

(4)

Humanitarianism (Ergon)

65

(2)

The Twentieth-Century Contextual Turn

67

(10)

Part II. Four World-views in Western Geography

Introduction: The Way of Metaphor

77

(10)

Chapter Three World as Mosaic of Forms

87

(33)

Center and Horizon

88

(5)

A Correspondence Theory of Truth

93

(4)

Realism versus Nominalism in Medieval Times

97

(4)

Renaissance Formism

101

(4)

Enlightenment Geography

105

(3)

Kantian Foundations and the Chorological Imperative

108

(2)

Mosaic and American Geography

110

(10)

Chapter Four World as Mechanical System

120

(35)

Physic, Nous, and the Nature of Things

124

(3)

From Organic Whole to Mechanical Systems

127

(2)

Mechanization of the World Picture

129

(3)

Deus ex Machina

132

(5)

A Causal Adjustment Theory of Truth

137

(3)

Geography and "Systems"

140

(15)

Chapter Five World as Organic Whole

155

(31)

Classical Foundations of Organicism

159

(4)

An Infinity of Worlds

163

(4)

Cosmos, Human History, and Geography

167

(4)

A Coherence Theory of Truth

171

(2)

The Appeal of the Organism

173

(10)

Organism, Poesis, and Human Identity

183

(3)

Chapter Six World as Arena of Events

186

(25)

From Sophistry to Pragmatism

188

(4)

An Operational Theory of Truth

192

(2)

Divergent Streams in Europe and America

194

(6)

Geography and Arena: Meaning, Metaphor, Milieu

200

(5)

Narcissus, Twilight, and Arena

205

(6)

Conclusion. Concluding Hopes: Narcissus Awake

211

(12)

Appendix: Dialogue Project Recordings, 1978-1989

223

(12)

Notes

235

(12)

References

247

(26)

Index

273

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