The geographical unconscious

This ambitious and innovative volume stretches over time and space, over the history of modernity in relation to antiquity, between East and West, to offer insights into what the author terms the 'geographical unconscious'. She argues that, by tapping into this, we can contribute towards the reinstatement of some kind of morality and justice in today's troubled world. Approaching selected moments from ancient times to the present of Greek cultural and aesthetic geographies, the book examines diachronic spatiotemporal flows, which are cultural, urban or landscape-related, in conjunction with pa.

Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Maps; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Archetypal Spatialities; 1 The Space of Heroes; The Fire of the Eyes; The 8th Century BC: Myth, Geographies, Art; Tragedy and Participatory Spatialities; Homer's Poetic 'I'; Awesome Humanity and the Tragic Polis; Spatialities, Cosmologies, Optics; Mathematics and the Law; Nature, People, Architecture: Interactions; The Shield of Achilles; 2 Sappho: Light and the Sacred Cosmologies of the Human Body; The Dancing Maidens; Sacred Cosmologies; The 'Modern' Archaic Poetic Genius and the Dialectics of Immortality.

The Poetess and HomerSappho's Thiasos; Sappho: Persona Loquens or the Voice of Generality?; Drawing the Divine in the Poetic Sphere; Nature, Gardens, Sanctuaries; Present Interpretations; Part II Byzantine Participatory Spatialities and Modern Art; 3 Byzantine Art, Cubism, Surrealism; Archaism in the Heart of Modernism; Spatial Conventions; Byzantine Intuitive Spatio-visualities; Western Breakthroughs; Cubism and Intuitive-relational Spatialities; Surrealism: Looking for Archetypal Associations; Comparison between the Three Genres.

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