Geography as a tool for developing the mind : a theory of place-making / Robert David Sack ; with a foreword by Yi-Fu Tuan
- Author
- Sack, Robert David
- Additional Titles
- Theory of place-making
- Published
- Lewiston [N.Y.] : Edwin Mellen Press, [2013]
- Copyright Date
- ©2013
- Physical Description
- viii, 535 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: pt. One Introduction -- ch. 1 Introduction and Overview -- 1.1.Continuities, Discontinuities, Gaps, and The Gap -- 1.2.Outline of the Argument -- pt. Two The Gap -- ch. 2 Facing The Gap -- 2.1.Reduction -- 2.1.1.Scientific Reduction -- 2.1.2.Rhetorical Reduction -- 2.2.Searle's Classification -- 2.3.Definition -- 2.3.1.General Version: Incomplete "Internal" Bridge -- 2.3.2.Specific Version: Reasons and Causes -- 2.3.3.Extending the Specific Version -- 2.3.4.The Gap, Simple Action, and the Core Self -- 2.4.Comparison to Searle's Position -- 2.5.Contradictions within the No-Gap Argument -- 2.6.The Core Self and Attributes of Self -- 2.7.Routinization -- 2.8.Political Implications -- 2.9.Science, Evolution, Religion, and Morality -- ch. 3 Not Facing the Gap -- 3.1.Surface and Depth -- 3.2.Self-Society -- 3.2.1.Toward Scientific Reduction -- 3.2.2.Toward Rhetorical Reduction -- 3.3.Society-Nature -- 3.3.1.No-Gap Approaches -- 3.3.2.Society---Nature from the Natural Side -- 3.3.3.Society---Nature from the Social Side -- 3.4.Tools and Bracketing -- 3.5.Why the Gap is Not Faced -- pt. Three The Theory -- ch. 4 Level I -- 4.1.Place and Geography -- 4.2.Tools and Place-Making -- 4.3.Place as a Tool -- 4.4.Structure and Dynamics of Level I -- 4.4.1.Simultaneity, Redundancy, Flexibility, and Simple Spatial Information -- 4.4.2.Spatial Information and Dual Directionality -- 4.4.3.Nonreduction -- 4.4.4.Place and the Social -- 4.4.5.Knowledge and Roles -- 4.4.6.Social Power -- 4.4.7.Routinization -- 4.4.8.Social-Structural "Causality" -- 4.4.9.Raw Social Power -- 4.5.Society-Nature -- 4.5.1.Nature as Part of the Social -- 4.5.2.Society's Effect on Nature as a Result of Incomplete Closure and Dual Directionality -- 4.5.3.Nature's Effect on Us -- 4.5.4.What, Then, Is Nature? -- 4.5.5.Cyborgs and the Body -- 4.5.6.Social Construction of Nature, Hybridization of Nature and Society -- 4.6.Geography -- 4.6.1.Place-Making and Geography's Interest in Nature -- 4.6.2.Physical (or Natural) Space -- 4.6.3.The Social Construction of Space and Spatiality -- 4.6.4.Scale and Place as Scale Invariant -- 4.6.5.Continuities and Discontinuities -- 4.6.6.Spaces of Flows and Places as Nodes and Networks -- 4.6.7.Surface and Depth: Disengagement and Engagement -- 4.6.8.Human Territoriality -- 4.7.Summary -- ch. 5 Level II -- 5.1.Realms and Domains -- 5.1.1.Empirical Domain -- 5.1.2.Meaning ("r's" That Refer to Thought and Feeling and Reflection but That Are Not Spatial Rules and Instructions for Action) -- 5.1.3.Nature (Bracketed and Unbracketed "c's") -- 5.1.4.Social Relations ("r's" as Social Rules and Obligations without Spatial Instructions for Action) -- 5.2.The Weave of Threads -- 5.3.The Loom -- 5.3.1.In/Out of Places Rules ("r's" with Spatial Instructions for Action Backed Up by "c's") -- 5.3.2.Spatial Interactions or Flows ("c's", including Those That Convey "r's") -- 5.3.3.Surface/Depth or Appearance/Reality ("r's" That Raise Questions about Meaning but Offer No Rules or Instructions for Action) -- 5.3.4.Dynamics of the Loom and Threads -- 5.4.Transgressions and Unweaving -- 5.5.Nonreduction -- 5.6.Dispersion of the Self -- 5.7.Summary of Expansion of Level I to Level II -- 5.8.Moral Domain -- 5.8.1.Truth -- 5.8.2.Justice -- 5.8.3.The Natural -- 5.9.The Aesthetic Domain -- 5.10.Points of View and Perspectives -- 5.10.1.Perspectives and Symbolic Systems -- 5.10.2.Ritual/Magic -- 5.10.3.Perspectives, Enactments, and the Realm of Meaning -- 5.10.4.Weave and Unweave -- 5.11.Implications of Level II -- 5.11.1.From Core Self to Attributes -- 5.11.2.Place and Identity -- 5.11.3.Situated Self -- 5.11.4.Sense of Place -- 5.11.5.Thick and Thin -- 5.11.6.Tools for Thickening (including Ritual and Magic) and for Thinning -- 5.11.7.Places and Memory -- 5.11.8.Mapping Reductive Arguments -- 5.11.8.1.Reduction through Nature -- 5.11.8.2.Reduction through Meaning -- 5.11.8.3.Reduction through Social Relations -- 5.11.8.4.Reduction of Self, with Place Doing the Reducing -- 5.11.8.5.Reduction among the Domains -- 5.11.9.Mapping Other Reductive and Nonreductive Geographical Perspectives and Debates -- 5.11.10.Toward a General Geographic Perspective -- 5.11.11.Mapping Lefebvre, Nodes, Networks, Spaces of Flows, and Latour's Hybridization -- 5.11.12.Place and Power, the Power of Place, and the Fenneman Diagram -- ch. 6 Level III -- 6.1.Surface Continuities and Discontinuities -- 6.2.Depth and the Need for Theory -- 6.3.Back to Levels II and I -- ch. 7 Time and the Geographic Problematic -- 7.1.The General Problem: The Gap, Physical Time, and Reflective Time -- 7.2.Geography's Connections of Space and Time That Do Not Face The Gap -- 7.3.The Theory and Time -- 7.3.1.Tendency toward the Static -- 7.3.2.Temporalities from Threads -- 7.3.3.Temporalities from the Loom -- 7.4.The Problematic and its Dynamics -- ch. 8 Instrumental Judgments -- 8.1.Reduction -- 8.2.Relativism And Absolutism -- 8.3.Support from Geographic Theory? -- 8.4.Living a Life Based on Instrumentalism -- ch. 9 Intrinsic Judgments -- 9.1.Core Argument -- 9.2.Expansion -- 9.2.1.The Real -- 9.2.2.Awareness -- 9.2.3.Variety and Complexity -- 9.2.4.The Good -- 9.2.4.1.Reality and Attractiveness of the Good -- 9.2.4.2.Good versus Moral -- 9.2.4.3.Beauty -- 9.2.4.4.Reason -- 9.2.4.5.An End in Itself -- 9.2.4.6.Intentions and Consequences -- 9.2.4.7.Privileging Awareness over Pain and Suffering -- 9.2.4.8.Altruism (and the Core Self) -- 9.2.4.9.Good Cannot Be Engineered -- 9.2.5.Evil, Weakness of Will, and Attraction of the Good -- 9.2.5.1.Increasing Awareness is an Effort of Will -- 9.2.5.2.Diminished Awareness Due to Weakness of will, Self-Deception, and Spatial Segmentation -- 9.2.5.3.Evil Not Done Willingly and Knowingly -- 9.3.Intrinsic Judgments as a Guide to the Good -- 9.3.1.Small Moves in the Right Direction -- 9.3.2.Numerous Paths to the Good -- 9.3.3.Intentions, Consequences, and Geographic Awareness -- 9.3.4.Altruism, Truth, Justice, and the Natural -- 9.3.4.1.Truth -- 9.3.4.2.Justice -- 9.3.4.3.The Natural -- 9.3.4.4.The Non-Relativity and Non-Absolutism of the Virtues, and Place-Making as a Gift -- 9.4.Evil -- 9.4.1.Vividness of Evil and Vagueness of Good -- 9.5.Geographic Impediments to Moral Progress -- 9.5.1.Spatial Relations, Distance, and Distribution -- 9.5.2.Compartmentalization and Moral Drift -- 9.6.Geography and Religion -- ch. 10 Some Social-Political-Economic Implications -- 10.1.Political -- 10.1.1.Intrinsic Democracy -- 10.1.2.Areal Representation -- 10.1.3.Membership -- 10.1.4.Right to Place and Right to a Particular Place -- 10.1.5.Democracy, Scale, and Spillovers -- 10.1.6.Public Places -- 10.2.The Economic -- 10.2.1.Theory of Value -- 10.2.2.Gift-Value -- 10.3.The Social -- 10.3.1.Social Justice -- 10.3.2.Making Institutions Geographically Aware -- 10.3.3.Education -- ch. 11 Coda and Possibilities.
- Summary
- "This study proposes that geographic theory can provide an explanation of how self-reflective consciousness is the basis of the relationship among self, society, and nature. It then applies this principles to how the social is constituted."--Publisher.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780773413153
0773413154
9780773435414 (pbk.)
0773435417 (pbk.) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Source of Acquisition
- Purchased with funds from the Class of 1985 Endowed Book fund; 2012
- Endowment Note
- Class of 1985 Endowed Book fund
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