The Condition of Premodernity

Steinberg, P.E.

doi:10.1177/2043820614565877

The Condition of Premodernity

Steinberg, P.E.

Authors

Professor Philip Steinberg philip.steinberg@durham.ac.uk
Professor

Abstract

In ‘Air’s Affinities’, Peter Adey (2015) adopts a premodern approach wherein an object’s elemental essence can be read directly from subjective encounter. This perspective effectively engages the material without endorsing determinism, the essential without endorsing the analytics of science and the power of the encounter without endorsing the radical subjectivity of phenomenology. However, it strips observation and analysis of its potential for critique, instead endorsing an outlook that is, at root, theological in its dependence on faith for understanding unobservable and unexplainable processes, elements, essences and affinities.

Citation

Steinberg, P. (2015). The Condition of Premodernity. Dialogues in Human Geography, 5(1), 95-97. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820614565877

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Nov 28, 2014
Publication Date	Mar 1, 2015
Deposit Date	Aug 4, 2016
Publicly Available Date	Aug 4, 2016
Journal	Dialogues in Human Geography
Print ISSN	2043-8206
Electronic ISSN	2043-8214
Publisher	SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	5
Issue	1
Pages	95-97
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820614565877

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Steinberg, P.E. (2015) 'The condition of premodernity.', Dialogues in human geography., 5 (1). pp. 95-97. Copyright © 2015 The Author(s). Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.