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.
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.