Geography is being more and more reduced to only one form of rationality, i.e. technical control. Such narrowness threatens all spiritual life and creativity. It calls on us to find new ways of thinking. Notwithstanding some refreshing break-throughs, especially its opening into literature, humanistic geography cannot be considered an adequate alternative to technical rationality. On the contrary, from a metaphysical perspective, humanism seems to be bordering on the very essence of technology. Its propositions partake of the system of metaphysical oppositions which determine the technological world. / From a position which can be defined as a radicalization of phenomenology, and which aims at the removal of some major obstacles to geographical creativity, some of these oppositions are deconstructed. Probing the possibilities of bringing geography and literature closer together, the oppositions set up between geography and literature, the geographical and the literary use of language, metaphorical and literal language, geographical and literary criticism, are understood as prejudices which have contributed to the elimination of all non-technologically oriented endeavors.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.75965 |
| Date | January 1988 |
| Creators | Lafaille, Richard |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | French |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy (Department of Geography.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 000914260, proquestno: AAINL52477, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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