What is it about?
Period of geographical imagination that began with Anaximander (VI BC), representative of the Milesian school and ended with the death of two of the first scientific geographers, von Humboldt and von Ritter (1859). Through the analyse the subjects of the study of geography we can understand the complexity of the contemporary development of geographical thinking and the dispersion of different philosophical directions over the 25 century
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Why is it important?
They crucially influenced the emergence of different geographical conceptions within the geography of modern and postmodern geographies, which cannot be understood without this development during premodern. This leads us to confirm the thesis that scientific thought, even geographic, has never been completely separated from philosophical thought, and that it is always within one frame of ideas, which in its conception is philosophical.
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Therefore, the study of different directions within the geography of modernity, whether it be positivism, behaviourism, humanistic approaches or structuralism (feminism and Marxism), implies an understanding of philosophical directions of the same name. The same is true of postmodern geography, which implies knowledge not only of their semantics, but also of a broader cognitive framework and interconnectedness. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the whole of this process from the emergence of geographical thinking during premodern times, during which this process took place in a straight line and in succession.
dr Goran GM Mutabdzija
University of East Sarajevo, Faculty of Philosophy
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This page is a summary of: PROLEGOMENA FOR A PRE-MODERN GEOPHILOSOPHY, May 2020, Geobalcanica Society,
DOI: 10.18509/gbp.2020.100.
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