Phenomenology, Science and Geography: Spatiality and the Human Sciences (Cambridge Human Geography)

Cover......Page 1
Frontmatter......Page 2
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 15
1 Science and man......Page 18
2 Science and phenomenology......Page 20
3 The plan of this work......Page 21
4 `Geographical phenomenology'......Page 22
5 The disciplinary context......Page 24
PART I - GEOGRAPHY AND TRADITIONAL META-PHYSICS......Page 30
6 Basic concepts of science and the method appropriate to ontology......Page 32
7 Objectivism and subjectivism......Page 34
8 Positivism and naturalism......Page 35
9 Kantian ontology of material nature......Page 41
10 Conceptions of physical space and geography......Page 42
11 Physical space, cognitive behaviouralism and the turn to subjectivity......Page 49
12 The mode of being characteristic of geographical objects......Page 52
PART II - GEOGRAPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGY......Page 56
13 The phenomenological basis of geography......Page 58
14 Geographical phenomenology......Page 62
15 Approaches to geographical phenomenology......Page 64
16 The view of science......Page 68
17 The turn to the lifeworld, and the ambiguity of ground and object......Page 76
18 The phenomenological method......Page 79
19 The metaphysics of geographical phenomenology......Page 85
20 Humanism and the confusion of the `objective' and the `subjective'......Page 86
21 Geographical phenomenology: its internal critique......Page 95
22 The turn to Schütz's constitutive phenomenology and justifying a return to Husserl......Page 98
PART III - PHENOMENOLOGY AND THE QUESTION OF HUMAN SCIENCE......Page 104
23 What is phenomenology?......Page 106
24 The need for phenomenology......Page 114
25 Descriptive phenomenology and science......Page 124
26 Phenomenology, science and lifeworld......Page 131
27 Phenomenology and a fundamental ontology of science......Page 138
28 Science and objectivation in geography......Page 140
29 The development of science and the concept of `progress'......Page 147
31 Rigour and exactitude in science......Page 150
32 Theory and its reach and hold over nature and world......Page 151
33 Science and the lived world......Page 152
PART IV - HUMAN SCIENCE, WORLDHOOD AND SPATIALITY......Page 156
34 Phenomenology......Page 158
35 Phenomenology and the science of geography......Page 159
36 Towards a formal projective human science......Page 162
37 Husserl and human science......Page 163
38 Towards a formal and a priori `mathesis of spirit and of humanity'......Page 167
39 The existential analytic and the human sciences......Page 168
40 The existential analytic and the `natural conception of the world' (or lifeworld)......Page 169
41 Geography, world and space......Page 171
42 World and worldhood......Page 173
43 Space......Page 175
44 The everyday mode of being-in-the-world......Page 177
45 The spatiality of the ready-to-hand: places and regions......Page 178
46 Space and science......Page 180
47 Man's spatiality......Page 181
48 Space and man's spatiality......Page 184
49 Place and space: implications for a regional ontology of spatiality for a geographical human science......Page 185
Notes......Page 188
References......Page 202
Index......Page 214