Year: 2000
Type: article
Abstract: The main aim of this paper is to explore a new geographical approach denominated «humanistic geography». In she first section we analyze the general background on which humanistic geography has been arisen on both, social sciences and geography. The humanistic geographers lay the foundaiions on the phenomenological existencialism and the idealism philosophies, therefore sorne ideas from those fields are introduced because have been used in the humanistic geographical approach. In the second section of this paper we discuss some of the niost relevant results drawn from the most representative authors of boths trends: phenomenologists such as Buttimer, Relph and Tuan; and idealists such as Ley, Harris and Guelke. La geografia humanistica 31 Finally, after underlining some methodological shortcomings, we conclude that the humanistic geography may be regarded rather a way of criticism to the philosophical positivism introduced in the «new geography» and also as a suggesting poini of view than a true alternative to the quantitative paradigm.
DOI: 10.5209/aguc.33298
Author: José Estébanez Álvarez
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1824479212