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Klappentext A work of outstanding originality and importance! which will become a cornerstone in the philosophy of geography! this book asks: What is human science? Zusammenfassung A work of outstanding originality and importance! which will become a cornerstone in the philosophy of geography! this book asks: What is human science? Is a truly human science of geography possible? What notions of spatiality adequately describe human spatial experience and behaviour? The author draws upon the works! of Husserl! Heidegger! Gadamer and Kockelmans in particular. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Introduction; Part I. Geography and Traditional Metaphysics: 2. Geographical discourse and its central themes; Part II. Geography and Phenomenology: 3. The interpretation of phenomenology in geography; 4. Geographical phenomenology: a critique of its foundations; Part III. Phenomenology and the Question of Human Science: 5. Husserlian phenomenology: the foundational project; 6. Phenomenology, science and phenomenological geography; 7. Towards a fundamental ontology of science; Part IV. Human Science, Worldhood and Spatiality: 8. Implications for the human sciences and a human science of geography; 9. Towards an understanding of human spatiality.
