Author : Daniel W. Gade
Publisher : Peter Lang Us
ISBN 13 : 9781433115417
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Curiosity, Inquiry, and the Geographical Imagination by : Daniel W. Gade
Download or read book Curiosity, Inquiry, and the Geographical Imagination written by Daniel W. Gade and published by Peter Lang Us. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines intellectual curiosity as the driving force in scholarly endeavor on the borderlands of geography, history, anthropology, and other disciplines. The premise is that curiosity is a salient trait of certain people past and present and that each field has its exemplars in this regard. For Carl O. Sauer (1889-1975), America's leading geographer of the twentieth century, and his intellectual descendants, the inquisitive spirit stood high on the list of indispensable scholarly attributes. Their curiosity-driven studies converging space, time, ecology, and culture involved a fluid and unpredictable process of intellectual discovery. This book, combining the empirical with the philosophical and reflexive, describes how the power of intrinsic motivation and the thread of a romantic consciousness blend with the joy of polymathic exploration.