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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495178303321

Titolo

The Philosophy of Geography / / edited by Timothy Tambassi, Marcello Tanca

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2021

ISBN

3-030-77155-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (244 pages)

Collana

Springer Geography, , 2194-3168

Disciplina

910.01

Soggetti

Human geography

Science - Philosophy

Geography

Physical geography

Human Geography

Philosophy of Science

Earth System Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- World, Earth and Landscape: Conceptual Distinctions -- Geography and Philosophy: From Ontologies to Ontogenesis -- On the Italian Theory -- Spatial order in traditional Chinese understanding -- Geographicity. An essay on the elementary forms of geographical experience -- Post-truth Geographies in the Age of Fake News -- Ontologies of Geographies -- The Sources of (Spatial) Self: a Way to Tackle Individual Spatiality -- Jamming the anthropological machine: postumanism and geography -- The Value of hybrid eco-systems -- Space, between Metaphor and Concept -- The Presocratic Geography.

Sommario/riassunto

The relationship between geography and philosophy is still largely in need of being explored. Geographers and philosophers share the responsibility for that. On the one hand, geographers have considered as a dangerous deviation any attempt to elaborate an image of the Earth which was not a mere replica of a cartographic representation. On the other hand, philosophers have generally been uninterested in a discipline offering little chance for critical reflection. In light of these



considerations, the purpose of this book is to identify some fundamental philosophical issues involved in the reflection of geography by adopting a perspective which looks at the discipline with a specific focus on its fundamental concepts and distinctions.