The essay focuses on the way our idea of the world changes according to the tools (sphere, map) we use to measure and circumscribe its regions and provide its overall configuration. For example, with the voyage of Columbus, precisely as it is subordinated to a geographical image, the world takes on a new face, different from the previous one: it takes shape according to the scheme that man has in mind, and corresponds to the cartographic image of the world, to the map. It is now the world that has to adapt to the spherical model: with Kant, “reason discovers only what it produces according to its design”. The essay considers the consequences that historically derive from this approach, starting from the traces it left in the works of Hegel, Jules Verne and Leon Battista Alberti.
Keywords: earth, globe map, travel geography
- Editoriale
- Premessa
- Viaggi terre universi
- Il cammino di Francesco
- Il globo, il viaggio, la tavola
- L’immagine del mondo per i suoi esploratori. Estetica e geografia tra Marco Polo e Cristoforo Colombo
- Metafora e realtà del viaggio
- Il viaggio come dispositivo di formazione e dissoluzione del soggetto nell’horror americano tra gli anni Trenta e Settanta
- Saggi
- Perniola’s studies
- Recensioni
- Abstracts
- Notizie sui collaboratori
- Indice dei numeri precedenti