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The Meaning of Travel
Philosophers Abroad
Taschenbuch von Emily Thomas
Sprache: Englisch

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The first ever history of the places where history and philosophy meet, from the Age of Discovery in the sixteenth century to contemplation of how space travel will affect our understanding of who we are in the twenty-first. This book will reshape your understanding of travel.
The first ever history of the places where history and philosophy meet, from the Age of Discovery in the sixteenth century to contemplation of how space travel will affect our understanding of who we are in the twenty-first. This book will reshape your understanding of travel.
Über den Autor
Emily Thomas is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Durham University. She completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge and worked in the Netherlands for three years before arriving at Durham. She has published extensively on the philosophy of space and time, as well as philosophical issues in travel. She has also spent a lot of time by herself getting lost around the world.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Travelling well: top 10 vintage trips

  • 1: What is travel? Montaigne and otherness

  • 2: What are maps? Brian Harley on cartographic deception

  • 3: Francis Bacon on exploration and apocalyptic philosophy of science

  • 4: Innate ideas on Descartes, Locke, and Cannibals

  • 5: Why did tourism start? A grand tale of education and sex

  • 6: Travel writing, thought experiments, and Margaret Cavendish's 'Blazing World'

  • 7: Mountain travel and Henry More's philosophy of space

  • 8: Edmund Burke and sublime tourism

  • 9: Wilderness philosophy, Henry Thoreau, and cabin porn

  • 10: Is 'travel' a male concept?

  • 11: The ethics of doom tourism

  • 12: Will space travel show the Earth is insignificant?

  • Returning home: top 10 vintage trips

  • Notes

  • Select Bibliography

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780198835417
ISBN-10: 0198835418
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Thomas, Emily
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Abbildungen: 25 illustrations
Maße: 196 x 131 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Emily Thomas
Erscheinungsdatum: 28.07.2022
Gewicht: 0,236 kg
Artikel-ID: 121197307
Über den Autor
Emily Thomas is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Durham University. She completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge and worked in the Netherlands for three years before arriving at Durham. She has published extensively on the philosophy of space and time, as well as philosophical issues in travel. She has also spent a lot of time by herself getting lost around the world.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Travelling well: top 10 vintage trips

  • 1: What is travel? Montaigne and otherness

  • 2: What are maps? Brian Harley on cartographic deception

  • 3: Francis Bacon on exploration and apocalyptic philosophy of science

  • 4: Innate ideas on Descartes, Locke, and Cannibals

  • 5: Why did tourism start? A grand tale of education and sex

  • 6: Travel writing, thought experiments, and Margaret Cavendish's 'Blazing World'

  • 7: Mountain travel and Henry More's philosophy of space

  • 8: Edmund Burke and sublime tourism

  • 9: Wilderness philosophy, Henry Thoreau, and cabin porn

  • 10: Is 'travel' a male concept?

  • 11: The ethics of doom tourism

  • 12: Will space travel show the Earth is insignificant?

  • Returning home: top 10 vintage trips

  • Notes

  • Select Bibliography

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780198835417
ISBN-10: 0198835418
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Thomas, Emily
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Abbildungen: 25 illustrations
Maße: 196 x 131 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Emily Thomas
Erscheinungsdatum: 28.07.2022
Gewicht: 0,236 kg
Artikel-ID: 121197307
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