Earth Ways

Gary Backhaus teaches philosophy at Morgan State University. John Murungi is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Towson University.

• 0 Introduction: Earth Ways: The Primordial Relation Between the Ways of Knowing and the Ways fo Earthly PhenomenaChapter 1 Herodotus and the Origins of Geography: The Strange, the Familiar, and the EarthboundChapter 2 Conceptualizing World Environmental History: The Contribution of Immanuel WallersteinPart 2 Framing Historical ContextsChapter 5 Rousseau in the Suburbs: Geography, Environment, and the Philosophical TurnPart 6 Framing Substantive TheoriesChapter 7 Toward a Phenomenology of Cognitive MappingChapter 7 A Contextualized Science and the Changing Landscapes of India: A Case Study of Science as a GraftChapter 8 The Die is Cast: Boundaries of Time, Boundaries of SpaceChapter 8 Pirates and the Geography of Knowledge: America and Algiers in the Late-Eighteenth CenturyChapter 9 The Geography of Material Culture and an Outline for Synergetic GeographyPart 10 Framing Case Studies of Specific Time-PlacesChapter 13 Finding the There There: Local Space, Global Ritual, and Early Cold War Berlin

It is always a pleasure to discover a book that pushes disciplinary boundaries in novel directions. Earth Ways forges new syntheses between philosophy and geographical ways of knowing and the result is a collection of thought-provoking, important essays. Advancing an interdisciplinary understanding of historical, theoretical and practical moments of dwelling, the authors seek to bring to light taken-for-granted assumptions and ways of "framing" that inevitably condition geographical and philosophical articulations of meaning. In addressing implicit ways of framing geographical meanings that are all too often ignored, the book charts an important new course.