David M. Smith is professor of geography, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.
There is a strong skipper at the helm of this ship ... The book is impressive on several grounds ... it is an innovative text that is the product of much reading in several disciplines brought against the standard of considerable accumulated wisdom ... the writing is lucid and never obscure ... it is a pioneering effort and sets out a seminal agenda for subsequent work. Among a mixed crop of current books, here is a volume that can be commended as essential reading. A far reaching, insightful and even-handed account of the multiple theories of morality developed by contemporary philosophy; how parts of these became illustrated and refined through geographical examples; and how the very essence of geography invokes moral issues ... its wide review, critiques and examples would convince any sceptical reader of the importance of connecting geography and morality. I enjoyed the book immensely and will use it in my classes ... I found the book to provide strong evidence that there are ways of viewing the moral and the good that only geography provides. The first major text book that seeks to explore in an integrated fashion the interface between geography and moral philosophy ... In a brief review, it is impossible to do full justice to this important work ... an extremely wide ranging book. In only some 214 pages of text, it seeks to relate all of these issues to central debates in contemporary moral philosophy, and it does so with both panache and commitment. "A richly suggestive text, written by a deeply learned and widely travelled scholar. An extremely wide ranging book ... seeks to relate all of these issues to central debates in contemporary moral philosophy, and it does so with both panache and commitment. There is a strong skipper at the helm of this ship ... The book is impressive on several grounds ... it is an innovative text that is the product of much reading in several disciplines brought against the standard of considerable accumulated wisdom ... the writing is lucid and never obscure ... it is a pioneering effort and sets out a seminal agenda for subsequent work. Among a mixed crop of current books, here is a volume that can be commended as essential reading. A far reaching, insightful and even-handed account of the multiple theories of morality developed by contemporary philosophy; how parts of these became illustrated and refined through geographical examples; and how the very essence of geography invokes moral issues ... its wide review, critiques and examples would convince any sceptical reader of the importance of connecting geography and morality. I enjoyed the book immensely and will use it in my classes ... I found the book to provide strong evidence that there are ways of viewing the moral and the good that only geography provides. The first major text book that seeks to explore in an integrated fashion the interface between geography and moral philosophy ... In a brief review, it is impossible to do full justice to this important work ... an extremely wide ranging book. In only some 214 pages of text, it seeks to relate all of these issues to central debates in contemporary moral philosophy, and it does so with both panache and commitment. "A richly suggestive text, written by a deeply learned and widely travelled scholar. An extremely wide ranging book ... seeks to relate all of these issues to central debates in contemporary moral philosophy, and it does so with both panache and commitment.
|
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
