浪漫地理学

by Yi-Fu Tuan, 段义孚, 陆小璇 (Translator)

“浪漫”与“地理学”看似是一对矛盾的词。地理学脚踏实地，充满常识，亦是生存所必需。在过去，每个人都要懂得去哪里寻找食物、水源和栖息地；而如今，所有人都必须细心经营地球家园，使之更宜安居。当今的地理学著作缺乏戏剧性，地图、数据、描述和分析比 比皆是，却没有豪侠之举，没有孜孜以求的精神。然而，在不远的历史中，地理学的确曾有魔力，并被认为是浪漫的。那是一个英勇探索的时代。探险家深入海洋、山岳、森林、洞穴、沙漠和极地冰原，检验着自己身体和精神的忍耐力……作者指出，若是将精神视为人类存在的核心，或许人类需要将整个宇宙当作游乐场：超越中庸之道，信奉诸如光与暗、高与低、头脑与肌肉等两极化价值，皈依一些并不满足生存需要，却迎合热烈的浪漫渴望的地理环境。全书以灵动的笔调，从哲学、心理学、人类学的角度讲述人性与大地的互动，发掘地理学的诗性潜力。

Genres: Philosophy, Geography, Nonfiction, Nature, Art, History

220 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2013

About the author

Fu Tuan (Traditional Chinese: 段義孚, born 5 December 1930) is a Chinese-U.S. geographer.
Tuan was born in 1930 in Tientsin, China. He was the son of a rich oligarch and was part of the top class in the Republic of China. Tuan attended University College, London, but graduated from the University of Oxford with a B.A. and M.A. in 1951 and 1955 respectively. From there he went to California to continue his geographic education. He received his Ph.D. in 1957 from the University of California, Berkeley.

Reviews

[Andrew · Rating 4 out of 5]

Compelling ideas about the human need for romance in a time when geography is increasingly about maintenance and care-taking. Examples are drawn from literature and explorers' autobiographical writings. Resonance here with prior Tuan writings such as Escapism and the Good Life. Tuan's concepts of civilization and the good are more sophisticated than they are in usual speech, and he slowly complicates their relationship with the romantic until we get a nuanced humanistic understanding of the role of the sublime landscape in the 20th century.

[Nel Jones · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love Yi-Fu Tuan

[Travis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Big fan of Tuan's philosophy on humanistic geography, every book of his I've read is insightful and super interesting, granting a cool perspective on the way we interact with the natural world through mythology, story, societal beliefs, among a variety of other topics. This one is focused more around the idea of romanticism in geographic, largely around how this fueled human exploration in history but covering a bunch of other ideas as well

[Lecturamateur · Rating 5 out of 5]

Por medio de un recorrido social- cultural describe la historia del pensamiento de los seres humanos con sus respectivas interacciones con el entorno.

Lo fantástico es la manera en que contrapone ideas de la cultura occidental con la oriental, el significado y valor de cada pensamiento es analizado para contar la historia social de los seres humanos.

El viaje de ser seres nómadas dónde deciden desarrollar sociedades agrícolas convirtiéndose en las bases del futuro el cual  culmina  en la construcción de ciudades para relegar de su pasado histórico.

Un viaje por lo sublime de la naturaleza que impacta a los humanos dónde algunos observan oscuridad y medios  para gobernar otros deciden ver esa gran majestuosidad aludiendo a lo romántico del paisaje.

Si duda alguna voy a leer otros libros de este autor que se posiciona en mis autores preferidos.

[Emma Sea · Rating 5 out of 5]

So enjoyable and thinky.