The Philosophy of Geography

Preface
Contents
Part I Philosophy and Geography
1 History of Geography and History of Philosophy. Convergences, Affinities, and Loans
	Introduction
	Ancient Times and Beyond
	Kant and Geography
	Ritter and Hegel
	Marx and Marxist Geographies
	Heidegger and Dardel: Being Human on Earth
	Foucault: Geography at the Heart of Our Concerns
	An Increasingly Closer Relationship in the Anthropocene Era?
	References
2 Converting the Earth into a Dwelling Place
	A Pioneer of the Rights of Nature
	Autonomy and the Intrinsic Value of Nature
	A Renewed Ontology: All Beings Are Subjects
	A Typology of Attitudes: Between Instrumentality and Gratitude
	Human Existence and Lived Nature
	Necessity and Mastery: The Original Ambivalence
	The Animals, Partners in an Equal Community
	From Morality to Ethics: Man as the You of Nature
	References
3 Transmutations. Novel Encounters Between Philosophy and Social Theory of Space
	From Trees to Spirals
		Novel Tasks for Philosophy in the Era of Social Science
		From Meta-Theory to Mega-Theory
		Europe: A Slow Substitution
		Fall of the Hierarchical Tree, Rise of the Dialogical Spiral
	Inter-register Travels
		Beyond Translation
		Multiple Rhizomes
		The Risk of Meta-Speeches
	References
4 Applied Ontology of Geography. Mapping the Interdisciplinary (Un-)Connections
	Introduction
	On the Connections Between Philosophy and Geography
	Two Triangles
	Ontologies of Geography
	Digital Geographies
	Big-O Ontology Versus Small-o Ontologies
	The Geo-Ontological Circle
	8. (Small-o) Ontological Interdisciplinary Connections
	Five Features of (Big-O) Ontological Knowledge
	(Big-G) Geographical Un-connections
	Representations and Practices
	From Applied o/Ontology of Geography to Applied o/Ontology of Geography
	References
Part II Space, Place, and Territory
5 Spatiality First
	The Turning Point of Spatialities
	What Do We Do When We Think About Spatiality?
	Inhabiting It as a Scientific Fieldwork
	A Human, Political, Ethical Geography
	Do We Still Need the Concept of scale?
	References
6 Space and Place: A Daoist Perspective
	Introduction
	Space, Dao, and Emptiness
	Place, De, and Wuwei
		Wuwei and Being-In-Place
		Importance and Suspect of the Body
		The Ideal Place for Laozi
	Finding Space in Place: Toward a Conclusion
	References
7 Geographicity. On the Affective Dimensions of Geographical Experience
	Dwelling, Landscape, Atmosphere
		Dwelling
		Landscape
		Atmosphere
	From Landscape to Geographicity
		Geographicity
		The Structures of Geographicity
	References
8 Being Human in a Godsend World. The Ontology of Territoriality in the Baoulé Philosophical Narrative (Ivory Coast)
	Blo: Sacred Origins of the Baoulé Physical Space
		Mythical Foundations of Territory
		Baoulé Cosmology: From Cosmogony to Geography
	The Territorialization Process as a Sacred Mission
		Blo as Theophany and Hierophany
		Klo, Pivot of Baoulé Geography
	Designing Harmony
	References
Part III Open Questions
9 Post-truth Geographies in the Age of Fake News
	A Brief History of Fake News
	Trump, Post-truth, and Fox News
	Theories of Truth and the Political Far Right
	Post-truth Geographies
	Concluding Thoughts
	References
10 Geography and the Coming Community
	Introduction
	Geography and Community
	Esposito and the Unthinkable Community
	Blanchot and the Non-experience of Community
	Agamben’s Coming (Affirmative) Community
	References
11 The Posthuman Imperative: From the Question of the Animal to the Questions of the Animals
	Introduction
	The Posthuman Imperative
	More-Than-Human and Posthuman Geographies
	The Question of the Animal
	Animal Geography: A Very Short Re-introduction
	Conclusion: The Questions of the Animals
	References
12 The Traces of Nature; or: The Value of Hybrid Nature
	Introduction: From Hybrid Geography to Hybrid Nature
	The Anthropocene, the End of Nature and Hybridism
	Getting Rid of “Nature”?
	Kinds of Hybrids and Hybridity
	The Value of Hybrid Nature. Sketch of a Theory
	Conclusions
	References
Index