Curiosity, Inquiry, and the Geographical Imagination (eBook)

Daniel W. Gade (Autor)

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2012
307 Seiten
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4539-0789-4 (ISBN)

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This book examines intellectual curiosity as the driving force in scholarly endeavor on the borderlands of geography, history, anthropology, and other disciplines. The premise is that curiosity is a salient trait of certain people past and present and that each field has its exemplars in this regard. For Carl O. Sauer (1889-1975), America's leading geographer of the twentieth century, and his intellectual descendants, the inquisitive spirit stood high on the list of indispensable scholarly attributes. Their curiosity-driven studies converging space, time, ecology, and culture involved a fluid and unpredictable process of intellectual discovery. This book, combining the empirical with the philosophical and reflexive, describes how the power of intrinsic motivation and the thread of a romantic consciousness blend with the joy of polymathic exploration.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.2.2012
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 1-4539-0789-0 / 1453907890
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4539-0789-4 / 9781453907894