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050	0	4	_aGF21 _b.B87 1993
100	1		_aButtimer, Anne.
245	1	0	_aGeography and the human spirit / _cAnne Buttimer ; with a foreword by Yi-Fu Tuan.
264		1	_aBaltimore : _bJohns Hopkins University Press, _c[1993]
264		4	_c©1993
300			_axiv, 285 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 247-272) and index.
505	0	0	_t-- Pt. I: Phoenix, Faust, Narcissus. Meaning, metaphor, milieu ; The drama of western humanism _t-- Pt. II: Four world-views in western geography. Introduction: The way of metaphor ; World as mosaic of forms ; World as mechanical system ; World as organic whole ; World as arena of events _t-- Conclusion: Concluding hopes: Narcissus awake _t-- Appendix: Dialogue project recordings, 1978-1989.
520			_aGeography and the Human Spirit takes up that challenge in a panoramic survey of ideas about humanity's relationship to the natural environment. Ranging widely across time and cultures - from Plato to the Upanishads, from Goethe to Barry Lopez - Anne Buttimer explores the ways that human beings have turned to natural science, theology, and myth to form visions of the earth as a human habitat. She also reaches beyond the Western tradition to examine how other cultures have conceptualized the nature and meaning of their environments. Buttimer begins by placing her study in the context of Western intellectual and cultural history. Focusing on the "emancipatory cry" of humanism, she identifies and interprets cyclical patterns of Western thought using the three mythopoetical characters of Phoenix, Faust, and Narcissus. Phoenix becomes her symbol for the emergence of new ideas and ways of life. Faust symbolizes the next phase, the typically Western drive to build structures, institutions, and legal frameworks around such new ideas. But tensions inevitably arise between Faust and Phoenix - between structure and the original emancipatory spirit. Then Narcissus appears, critically reflecting on the situation and eventually choosing one of two alternatives: falling in love with his own image or undergoing painful liberation from past certainties to welcome a new Phoenix. Buttimer uses these symbols to reflect on four ways in which the world has been perceived both in the Western cultural tradition and in other traditions throughout history: the world as a mosaic of forms, as a mechanical system, as an organic whole, and as an arena of spontaneous events. Although postmodern thinkers have seen the struggle between Faust the builder and Narcissus the evaluator as insoluble, she argues that the impulse of the Phoenix can bridge the gaps between disciplines, cultures, and world-views. "Each civilization has a story to tell," writes Buttimer. "The unfolding patterns of the earth around us invite a sharing of these stories as one essential step toward discovering mutually acceptable bases for rational discourse on wiser ways of dwelling."
650		0	_aHuman geography _xPhilosophy.
710	2		_9111770 _aJohns Hopkins University.
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