浪漫地理学
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hedgehog2015-05-27Family, home, community -- these concrete, down-to-earth experiences of goodness -- are anchorage, the source of stablity, for the more abstract, mind-direct, ethereal-aesthetic satisfactions of romantic quests. Home stands for life. Romantic quest? Whatever it is, it is not rumpled bedsheets or the aroma of freshly baked bread. Can it be -- can part of it be -- the appeal of death?
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hedgehog2015-05-27From one point of view, home is the necessary secure base and point of departure for the adventurer; from another, venturing into the unknown tends to exaggerate the goodness of home.
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hedgehog2015-05-27The economic reason justifies itself. Even so, one might wonder why so much effort was expended to acquire something nonessential, such as the spices of India. As for reasons such as pride, vainglory, patriotism, we accept them only because we are part of Western civilization. To someone of another civilization, polar adventures could seem pure madness.
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hedgehog2015-05-25Civilization encourages individuals to stand out, their thoughts and deeds to be recognized and recorded. Writing helps the process along. At first used by religion to regulate worship, then by adminstrators of government and business to keep records and facilitate cooperation, when writing eventually came to be used by private individuals, it enabled them to not only record but elaborate on their experiences as well as those of others.
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hedgehog2015-05-20Professors who take their calling seriously do not seek to please but to teach, and what they teach is not only useful knowledge but knowledge that was once called "wisdom", garnered from Mount Olympus.
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hedgehog2015-05-19As with "darkness" and "light", "high" and "low" may be reversed in value. Thus, in both ancient Rome and modern Chicago, high-rise tenement building provide housing for the poor, whereas villas and mansions close to the ground are residences for the rich.
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hedgehog2015-05-19Can there, nevertheless, be a romantic geograhy? Can it be argued that there is need for one since much of human life is in fact driven by passion -- by the desire to reach what is out of reach or even beyond reach?
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snowy2014-09-06Overture:p.5 Romanticism, the sublime, the gothic, the decadentp.6 the second half part of 20c. :anti-romantic 20世纪下半叶的地理学,home economics- not romantic p.6-7 there are many civilizations—a dozen to twenty, according to Arnold J. Togubee – but only one, the western, has developed a way of thinking and feeling about the world that justifies the name of romantics. p.7 they can’t help being so affected, for underlying romanticism, and indeed underlying all human desires, temptations, and aspirations are the polarized values, existence of which lures people to move, at least in imagination, beyond the norm to the extremes. Chapter 1. Polarized Valuesp.11 Suger (1081?-1151) be credited with the invention of the gothic churchp.16-17 the good society cannot be one of perfect harmony. It re...
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豆友1492123702021-10-27若是对家务的细节问题过分重视——我必须称其为“家园经济”——会使头脑中形成官僚式的框架。如此一来,地理学系将会变成社会经济学数据的收集分析办公室,而地理学家则会变成辩论当今社会意识形态的权威。家政学般的行事方式必须与浪漫且先验性的洞察力为伴一一无论是像威廉・华兹华斯所说的“仿若那寄寓于落日灿烂余晖之中的、渗入万物魂灵的虚无缥缈”,还是如爱因斯坦说的“宇宙的音乐”( music of the spheres)。尽管“宇宙的音乐”这一古老的哲学概念在现代物理学中早已过时,爱因斯坦却重拾其重要性一一若没有对超越人类身体感知的崇高的渴求,若没有倾听这宇宙之音的精神的耳朵,就难于取得真正优秀的科学成就。
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丛林宜歌2021-08-12浪漫的地理学并不是过时之物。地球上还有许多地方——比如说海洋——等待着地理学家去探索;而地球之外,还有其他我们知之甚少的行星和恒星。如果地理学家认同“家”里住的是广阔的人类精神而不是简单的人类身体,那么这些地方同样是他们研究的领域。从另一方面来说,如果“家”的概念如此宽泛,那么我们研究的或许就不仅仅是地理学而是宇宙学。实际上,任何超越了对地球的痴迷并开始欣赏天空、太阳和星星的文化——以及所有完成这一转变的文明——都默认了我们的家园不仅仅是地球而是整个宇宙。事实上,对于人类历史上的大多数人来说,地理学也是宇宙学。
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浅黑2021-08-06在一些人看来,一个渴望极限旅行的灵魂不会对“家”有过多的感觉。然而,远征与回归这两种情感是相连的。从某个角度来看,家即使一个必要的安全基地,又是探险的起点;从另一个角度来看,在未知世界的探险会将家的好处渐渐放大。
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丛林宜歌2021-08-0512世纪哥特式教堂中最显著的特征不是十字肋架拱、尖拱,或者飞拱,而是光本身。正如艺术史学家奥托・冯・西姆森( Otto von Simson)所说:“那哥特式的墙壁就像开孔的介质:光滤过它,穿透它,与其融合,使其升华。哥特式可以描述为透明、模糊的建筑,那是一片连续的光的界面。”
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丛林宜歌2021-08-12“崇高”是18世纪盛行的思潮之一。尽管“崇高”的概念由英国思想家埃德蒙·柏克在1757年详细阐述,但它事实上根植于古典时代的思辨。崇高是什么呢?它与美有一定的类似,然而它不是秩序与和谐,它也不必然产生快乐。是的,它可以唤起完全相反的情绪:被巨大、混乱甚至丑陋之物所淹没,被几近痛苦的狂喜所浸蚀,陷入激烈地生存却渴求死亡的困境。“崇高”的思潮进而分化成两派,分别是浪漫主义和哥特,前者在18世纪尤为突出,后者则稍晚盛行。极地探险的故事有时可以像哥特罗曼司一样,其结果往往是疯狂错乱抑或同类相食。
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丛林宜歌2021-08-05在普遍社会认知中,世界是“浪漫的”,但家不是;男人是浪漫的,而女人却不是。女权主义运动的一个主张,就是指出女性也可以是浪漫的,即她们也可以引领一段大胆的人生,也可以去和风车决斗,也可以在梦中徜徉冒险。与此同时,女权主义亦包含另一个同样强烈却恰恰相反的主张,即不应是女人参与到男人的世界,而应该是男人参与到女人的世界,共同努力将地球塑造成可持续的家园。
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丛林宜歌2021-08-05求索,是浪漫的核心所在。探险家在没有任何世俗补偿的情况下,为探知尼罗河源头、到达地球两极,抑或登抵最高山峰的愿望所指引。天文学家彻夜坐在高山上或沙漠中的望远镜前,直直地盯着那些看似闪耀但在百万年前就消失了的繁星。若有人问,为何如此?我想答案大概是,有些人会在广袤与无垠面前感到无比满足;他们虽追逐精确的事实,却是真正的浪漫主义者。
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浅黑2021-08-04文明化的过程就是从无形到有形、从混乱到和谐的过程。有谁会对这条带来发展与前进之路是人类应取的正道表示怀疑?然而,怀疑之声又因可循。上帝在混沌中创立了秩序,但对这位拥有浪漫主义气质的伟大艺术家而言,太可预测的”秩序“不免有一丝乏味。所以它把人类添加到它的作品中——人类与其他造物不同,他有自由的能力,这意味着他能进行选择,包括以自己的选择制造无序的可能性。人类也是想从混乱中制造秩序、从错乱中提炼和谐的艺术家。他们受到繁星围绕北极星运转的秩序启发,想要建立一个诸侯与庶民皆甘心屈从和服侍永恒帝王的社会。这一愿景若能实现,结果必然是一个拥有秩序与和谐的世界——然而,那亦是独裁的世界。好的社会制度不可能是完美而和谐的——它需要一定程度上的无序,需要由社会的压力和矛盾所不断促生新思想的滋养。换句话说,好的社会制度就像为抵达的艺术作品一样,必须包含失调的部分。可以容纳混乱与开放机制的好的社会制度,其浪漫气息胜过古典氛围。
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丛林宜歌2021-08-12对于那些已经厌烦了在思想与精神的稀薄空气中生活的知识分子,沉湎于带着汗味的人类身体之美似乎更加有趣。詹姆斯・乔伊斯绝对是这么认为的。他的著作《尤利西斯》以单词“yes”结尾。但是这个“yes",据他解释,象征着女性的阴部。就像其他现代主义者一样,乔伊斯鄙视浪漫,鄙视对高度的渴望,最重要的是,他鄙视通过精神的升华,从“低”向“高”进步的路径,即从柏拉图开始的西方道家们一直标榜的升华之路。对于现代的世故之人与愤世嫉俗者,未经文明加工的生物生活——“低层次”的生活——才是一切真实幸福的来源。