01556nam a22002177a 4500 20260605163431.0 260605b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780857423788 : Donated by Prof. Romila Thapar 861.3 FAR Farinelli, Franco. Blinding Polyphemus. / Franco Farinelli. , London : Seagull Books , 2003. 236p. : 24cm. 00 Today, we believe that the map is a copy of the Earth, without realizing that the opposite is true: in our culture the Earth has assumed the form of a map. In Blinding Polyphemus, Franco Farinelli elucidates the philosophical correlation between cultural evolution and shifting cartographies of modern society, giving readers an interdisciplinary study that attempts to understand and redefine the fundamental structures of cartography, architecture and the notion of “space. ” Following the lessons of nineteenth-century critical German geography, this is a manual of geography without any map. To indicate where things are means already responding, in implicit and unreflective ways, to prior questions about their nature. Blinding Polyphemus not only takes account of the present state of the Earth and of human geography, it redefines the principal models we possess for the description of the world: The map, above all, as well as the landscape, subject, place, city and space. Polyphemus Blinding Polyphemus Franco Farinelli. RBK 68907 68907 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2026-06-05 Donated by Prof. Romila Thapar 0.00 0 861.3 FAR G8315 2026-06-05 16:34:46 2026-06-05 RBK Prof. Romila Thapar Collection