Sublime

chapter five reflects on our agency—that is our ability to make our own choices—in the navigation of environments, which remains a fundamental component of our connection to places.

Selon John Locke, « l'enseignant des Lumières », le grand jeu moderne de la cartographie était ainsi en place : établir la carte du Kosmos entier en termes empiriques. Et - c'est ce dont nous allons parler - un siècle ou environ après le début de ce jeu qui consiste à convertir le Kosmos entier en cela objectifs, le programme des Lumières s'est rév

“I am not fully known to myself because part of what I am is the enigmatic traces of others.”

As Harold Bloom has shown, the real American religion is “to be free of other selves.”

There are two traditional ways of addressing this material death and the anxiety it may provoke. The first is to argue that we have an immortal soul that is separate from the decomposing matter of our bodies. Even though our bodies perish, we do not really die but ascend to a higher existence, independent of any body or endowed with an incorruptibl

after another, we may discover the joy that underlies life as it is—this fleeting, ungraspable, uncontrollable life-as-it-is.