El libro analiza con una mirada comparativa «todos los vínculos afectivos del ser humano con el entorno material». En este sentido, topofilia designa esa experiencia única que cifra los lazos existentes entre la persona y el luga...
Éste es un viaje a través de la maleza de contradicciones del mundo contemporáneo en busca de un lugar en el que el individuo pueda edificar una vida plena; un viaje del hogar al cosmos. China y Estados Unidos tensan un discurso con...
«Elegí la geografía porque siempre me he preguntado, acaso hasta la obsesión, sobre el significado de la existencia: quiero saber qué es lo que hacemos aquí, qué queremos de la vida.»
Yi-Fu Tuan, one of the world's most honored scholars and the founder of humanist geography, has spent a lifetime exploring the relationship between the places and spaces that surround us and the inner self. In particular, his writings have focused...
Geography is useful, indeed necessary, to survival. Everyone must know where to find food, water, and a place of rest, and, in the modern world, all must make an effort to make the Earthâour homeâhabitable. But much...
Acclaimed cultural geographer Yi-Fu Tuan considers humanity's enduring desire to escape realityâ and embrace alternatives such as love, culture, and Disneyworld
In a volume that represents the culmination of his life's work in considering the relationship between culture and landscape, eminent scholar Yi-Fu Tuan argues that "cosmos" and "hearth" are two scales that anchor what it means...
"(Tuan) does a masterful job exploring the condescending human treatment of animals as 'playthings' that exist only for our entertainment. He charts the malevolent history of male domination over women and children and the sad chronicle of...