Morality and Imagination: Paradoxes of Progress

Tuan, Yi-Fu

ISBN 10: 0299120643 / ISBN 13: 9780299120641

Verlag: Univ of Wisconsin Pr, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., 1989

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 107559

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Morality and Imagination: Paradoxes of Progress
• Verlag: Univ of Wisconsin Pr, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1989
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0299120643
• ISBN-13: 9780299120641
• Einband: Sof Cover
• Zustand: Excellent
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • High Wierdness
  • Psychology
  • religion

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Inhaltsangabe

Can the individual and society be both moral and imaginative? In Western society the moral person tends to be regarded as either simple and naive or narrow and bigoted. In contrast, the imaginative person is looked on as someone not bound by the customs of the group and therefore likely to be fanciful and out of touch with reality.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Yi-Fu Tuan is Vilas Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His many books include Dear Colleague, and his autobiography Who Am I? is also published by the University of Wisconsin Press, Tuan's fondness for his hometown, Madison, is suggested by his essay ""Reflections,"" which muses over the photographic paitings revealed in Zane Williams' recently released book Double Take: A Photographic Survey of Madison, Wisconsin.