ISBN:
9781000528541
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xiii, 365 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Key Ideas in Geography Ser
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Merriman, Peter Space
DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Space-Social aspects
;
Space-Philosophy
;
Spatial behavior
;
Space perception
;
Geometry
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Space is the first accessible text which provides a comprehensive examination of approaches that have crossed between such diverse fields as philosophy, physics, architecture, sociology, anthropology, and geography.
Abstract:
Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Boxes -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- The Voice of Space -- Defining Space and Spatiality -- A User's Guide to Space -- Notes -- Further Reading -- 2 Genealogies of Western Spatial Thinking -- Early Spatial Theories -- Modern European Spatial Thinking -- Space, Space-Time, and Relativity -- Spacetime, the Humanities, and the Social Sciences -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Further Reading -- 3 Geometric and Arithmetic Spaces -- Measuring, Calculating, and Classifying Spaces -- The Birth of Geometry? -- Applied Geometry -- Modern Geometric Spaces -- Cartesian Coordinates, Absolute Space, and Newtonian Mechanics -- N-Dimensional Spaces and Non-Euclidean Geometry -- Spatial Sciences and the Social Sciences -- Social Physics, 'Gravity' Models, and Spatial Relations -- Spatial Science and the Quantitative Revolution in Human Geography -- Space-Time Modelling, Plastic Space, and Topology -- Critiques of Spatial Science -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Further Reading -- 4 Psy-Spaces and Spatialities -- Psychology and Space: Perception, Behaviour, and Cognition -- Physiology, Psychology, and Spaces of Perception -- Behaviour, Cognition, and Space -- Developmental Psychology and Spatial Cognition -- Experimental Psychology, Psychiatry, and 'Personal Space' -- Ecological Psychology and J.J. Gibson -- Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, and Space -- Neurodiversity, and the Construction of Normal and Abnormal Spatialities -- Delusional Spatialities -- Phobias and Compulsive Spatial Practices -- Neurodiversity and Autistic 'Worlding' -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Further Reading -- 5 Phenomenological and Existential Spatialities -- Being-in-the-World: Explorations in Human Spatialities and Lived Spaces.
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