The Geographic Imagination of Modernity: Geography, Literature, and Philosophy in German Romanticism

Tang Traces The Emergence Of The Geographic Paradigm In Modern Western Thought In The Decades Around 1800. This Period Represents An Extraordinary Intellectual Threshold, A Time When European Society Invented New Conceptual Strategies For Making Sense Of Itself. The Book Brings To Light Geography As One Of The Most Important Of These Conceptual Strategies. Its Inquiry Revolves, First Of All, Around The Rise Of Geographic Science, As It Is In This Science That The Geographic Imagination Crystallizes. The Second Part Offers A Systematic Study Of The Key Spatial Categories Of The Modern Geographic Imagination, Including Orientation, Cultural Landscape, And Geohistory. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One The Emergence Of Modern Geography -- 1 The Reorganization Of Geographic Knowledge Around I8oo -- 2 The Aesthetic Origin Of Modern Geography -- 3 The Philosophical Origin Of Modern Geography -- Part Two Between Man And The Earth -- 4 Orientation Figurations Of Oriented Space -- 5 Dwelling In Space Figurations Of Cultural Landscape -- 6 Dwelling In Time Figurations Of Geohistory -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Bibliographic Level Mode Of Issuance: Monograph Includes Bibliographical References And Index. English