Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9780198835417 |
| ISBN10: | 0198835418 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 272 pages |
| Size: | 195x130x20 mm |
| Weight: | 240 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 25 illustrations |
| 465 |
Category:
The Meaning of Travel
Philosophers Abroad
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Date of Publication: 28 July 2022
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Short description:
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.
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.
Long description:
How can we think more deeply about travel?
This was the thought that inspired Emily Thomas to journey into the philosophy of travel, to explore the places where philosophy and travel intersect. Part philosophical ramble, part memoir, The Meaning of Travel begins in the Age of Discovery in the sixteenth century, when philosophers first began thinking and writing seriously about travel It then meanders forward to encounter the thoughts of Montaigne on otherness, John Locke on cannibals, and Henry Thoreau on wilderness.
On our travels with Emily Thomas, we discover the dark side of maps, how the philosophy of space fuelled mountain tourism, and why you should wash underwear in woodland cabins... We also confront profound questions, such as the debate on the ethics of 'doom tourism' (travel to doomed places such as glaciers or coral reefs), and how space travel might come to affect our understanding of human significance in a leviathan universe.
The first ever history of the places where history and philosophy meet, this book will reshape your understanding of travel.
Emily Thomas combines a personal voice with highly informative, well-researched glimpses of particular philosophical travellers... It's accessible and it's entertaining, but also opens up interesting philosophical ideas. It's very original.
This was the thought that inspired Emily Thomas to journey into the philosophy of travel, to explore the places where philosophy and travel intersect. Part philosophical ramble, part memoir, The Meaning of Travel begins in the Age of Discovery in the sixteenth century, when philosophers first began thinking and writing seriously about travel It then meanders forward to encounter the thoughts of Montaigne on otherness, John Locke on cannibals, and Henry Thoreau on wilderness.
On our travels with Emily Thomas, we discover the dark side of maps, how the philosophy of space fuelled mountain tourism, and why you should wash underwear in woodland cabins... We also confront profound questions, such as the debate on the ethics of 'doom tourism' (travel to doomed places such as glaciers or coral reefs), and how space travel might come to affect our understanding of human significance in a leviathan universe.
The first ever history of the places where history and philosophy meet, this book will reshape your understanding of travel.
Emily Thomas combines a personal voice with highly informative, well-researched glimpses of particular philosophical travellers... It's accessible and it's entertaining, but also opens up interesting philosophical ideas. It's very original.
Table of Contents:
Travelling well: top 10 vintage trips
What is travel? Montaigne and otherness
What are maps? Brian Harley on cartographic deception
Francis Bacon on exploration and apocalyptic philosophy of science
Innate ideas on Descartes, Locke, and Cannibals
Why did tourism start? A grand tale of education and sex
Travel writing, thought experiments, and Margaret Cavendish's 'Blazing World'
Mountain travel and Henry More's philosophy of space
Edmund Burke and sublime tourism
Wilderness philosophy, Henry Thoreau, and cabin porn
Is 'travel' a male concept?
The ethics of doom tourism
Will space travel show the Earth is insignificant?
Returning home: top 10 vintage trips
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
What is travel? Montaigne and otherness
What are maps? Brian Harley on cartographic deception
Francis Bacon on exploration and apocalyptic philosophy of science
Innate ideas on Descartes, Locke, and Cannibals
Why did tourism start? A grand tale of education and sex
Travel writing, thought experiments, and Margaret Cavendish's 'Blazing World'
Mountain travel and Henry More's philosophy of space
Edmund Burke and sublime tourism
Wilderness philosophy, Henry Thoreau, and cabin porn
Is 'travel' a male concept?
The ethics of doom tourism
Will space travel show the Earth is insignificant?
Returning home: top 10 vintage trips
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
