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Articles | Volume 78, issue 3
Articles | Volume 78, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-78-467-2023
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Sauerian phenomenology: German Theory and Carl Sauer's The Morphology of Landscape

Maximilian Gregor Hepach

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Carl Sauer is considered to be the founder of cultural geography. I reassess Sauer's work by considering the debates in German geography that led up to the publication of his seminal work The Morphology of Landscape. Instead of focusing on culture, I focus on Sauer's use of phenomenology (for the first time in geography). I argue that Sauerian phenomenology provides answers for central philosophical problems of geography regarding the reality of area, region, and landscape.
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