The Meaning of Travel: Philosophers Abroad 2019946458, 9780198835400, 9780192572325

"This is the finest kind of travel: not just across continents, but through time, space and our infinite minds. The

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The Meaning of Travel: Philosophers Abroad
2019946458, 9780198835400, 9780192572325

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Emily Thomas

Table of contents :
CONTENTS

List of Illustrations
Travelling Well: Top 10 Vintage Tips
1. Why Do Philosophers Care about Travel?
2. What Are Maps? Brian Harley on Cartographic Deception
3. Francis Bacon on the Philosophy of Science and Frozen Chicken
4. Innate Ideas in Descartes, Locke, and Cannibals
5. Why Did Tourism Start? Sex, Education, and the Grand Tour
6. Travel Writing, Thought Experiments, and Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World
7. Mountain Travel and Henry More’s Philosophy of Space
8. Edmund Burke and Sublime Tourism
9. Wilderness Philosophy, Henry Thoreau, and Cabin Porn
10. Is Travel a Male Concept?
11. The Ethics of Doom Tourism
12. Will Space Travel Show the Earth Is Insignificant
Returning Home: Top 10 Vintage Tips
Acknowledgements
Notes
Credits
Publisher’s Acknowledgements
Select Bibliography
Index

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