Philosophies of Travel Course/Class October 31, 2011

From travellers in Augustan Rome, through Thomas Cook's dreams of a tourism-enabled sobriety, to iPod-wielding backpackers in India, travel has been understood as education, exploration, frivolity, and hedonism. The philosophies of travel reveal much about the cultures from which travellers emerge. Do we travel, as Samuel Johnson argued, to regulate imagination by reality, or as Pliny wrote, to see what we disregard when it is under our own eyes? This course looks at the habits and writings of travellers past and the present to build a picture of what travel is, and has been understood to be, for the traveller. Details of this event may be subject to change. Please visit http://www.cce.usyd.edu.au/course/phtr for more information or to register.

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