Part 1. Somewhere Between Explanation and the Condition of Postmodernity. Towards a Post-prefixed Economic Geography? Part 2. Essentialism and Rationalism in Rconomic Geography. Place, Space and Theories of Economic Value: Context and Essentialism in Economic Geography. Rationality and Relativism: An Interpretive Review of the Rational Choice Postulate in Economic Geography. Part 3. Mathematical Models, Metaphors and Muddles. Encountering Edinburgh: Economic Geography and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge. Metaphors and Conversations in Economic Geography: Richard Rorty and the Gravity Model. Probable Writing: Derrida, Deconstruction and the Quantitative Revolution in Economic Geography. Part 4. Three Exemplars. The Mask of Janus: Looking Toward Formalism and Contextualism with Piero Saffra. Harold A. Innis: Local Hero. Lukermann on Location.