In quest of a new humanism: Embodiment, experience and phenomenology as critical geography*

Progress in Human Geography

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 10-26

  Simonsen, Kirsten ^a  

^a ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

agency; anti humanism; bodies; experience; humanism; otherness; phenomenology; posthumanism

Indexed keywords

ETHICS; HUMAN GEOGRAPHY; PHILOSOPHY; RESEARCH WORK; SOCIAL THEORY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84872655068     PISSN: 03091325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309132512467573     Document Type: Article

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