Placing the Enlightenment: Thinking Geographically about the Age of Reason
by Charles W. J. Withers
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The Enlightenment was the age in which the world became modern, challenging tradition in favor of reason, freedom, and critical inquiry. While many aspects of the Enlightenment have been rigorously scrutinized-its origins and motivations, its principal characters and defining features, its legacy and modern relevance-the geographical dimensions of the era have until now largely been ignored. Placing the Enlightenment contends that the Age of Reason was not only a period of pioneering show more geographical investigation but also an age with spatial dimensions to its content and conce show lessTags
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Charles W.J. Withers is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Edinburgh
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