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Synopsis
The title Morality and Imagination needs classification, as moral philosophy, history of ideas, literary criticism, or even current affairs. Yes, the book has a bearing on all these fields. it draws ideas and examples from them, but it is in fact written by a geographer, which may seem strange until we remember what the discipline, in the broadest sense, is about how human beings have created homes or worlds out of nature, Geography arrives to describe and explain the visible material changes. Geography is also a humane study committed to interpret the meaning of human attachments and aspirations. I shall attempt in this book to explore the relationship between morality and imagination. Morality calls to mind set rules of behavior. Imagination has an appealing ring because it challenges such rules. This relationship is not completely opositional. One becomes more moral, society becomes more moral, with the help of imagination disciplined by the respect for the real.
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About the Author
Yi-Fu Tuan, J. K. Wright and Vilas Professor emeritus of geography at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is the recipient of numerous honors and the author of fifteen books including his autobiography Who Am I? also published by the University of Wisconsin Press. The UW Press publishes several other books by Tuan, including Morality and Imagination, and The Good Life.
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