Abstract

Geography has long sought contact with other areas of knowledge. From the arts and other sciences to philosophy, contacts are intense and promote new theoretical articulations. Based on this assumption, the article promotes contact between geography and the work of Byung-Chul Han, a contemporary German-Korean philosopher. The work, then, establishes a theoretical effort to relate the German-Korean author’s notion of Earth, present in the book Louvor à terra, to the most diverse geographical traditions, pointing out how Han’s philosophy vividly dialogues with geography and other social sciences. It is concluded that the work, by proposing a posture of planetary awareness, remodels understandings, criticizing the view of Earth as a resource and claiming an affective posture, which recognizes its mystery and its poetry by associating scientific work with wonder.

Keywords:
geography and philosophy; Byung-Chul Han; Earth