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| Author(s): |
Roberison Wittgenstein Dias da Silveira
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Geociências |
| Defense date: | 2012-03-13 |
| Examining board members: |
Antonio Carlos Vitte;
Eduardo Marandola Junior;
Heinz Dieter Heidemann;
Jair Lopes Barboza;
Ruy Moreira
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| Advisor: | Antonio Carlos Vitte |
| Abstract | |
Humboldt incorporates many legacies of his scientific, aesthetical, and philosophical context. Seemingly contradictory, indeed exclusive, these pathways can't be approximated without any difficult, whereas start from different cosmological notions and embrace a diverse range of guidelines and conceptual assumptions. But, in this apparent disharmony, takes shape a new scientific composition, characterized by the association between reason and sensibility, science and aesthetics, description and causal explanation, mechanism and teleology. As a basis for this innovative integration, Humboldt assimilated the ontological-metaphysical foundation offered by Schelling, addition Schiller's conception of man and goethean conception of form. We defended the thesis that this confluence of assumptions and methods is harmonized under the landscape concept and that, in this field, Humboldt has attempted understand and appease in his science the ontological divergence that comes from philosophy since its origin, and that is exactly the high point of the whole transformation operated in the thought of the period: the divergence between the idealist and materialist cosmoviews. More than that, we argue that this articulation under the landscape concept founded modern construction of geographic knowledge, despite a series of interpretation that want to subtract from Humboldt his structured and systematic role. In this reinterpretation of the genesis of modern Geography, we also wanted show how this misunderstood source can and should offer new horizons for the contemporary geographic knowledge (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 08/09702-0 - The genesis and the role of the concept of landscape in Humboldtian science: a contribution to the history of geography |
| Grantee: | Roberison Wittgenstein Dias da Silveira |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |