An open letter on the dematerialization of the geographic object

David Russell

pp. 329-344

in: Stephen Gale, Gunnar Olsson (eds), Philosophy in geography, Berlin, Springer, 1979

Abstract

The putative impertinence of Schaefer's critique can no longer be maintained. Exceptionalism was an accurate characterization of a geographical method­ology which has since then encroached geographical theory. By Schaefer II I wish to emphasize the trenchant pertinacity of the exceptionalist critique with respect to the entire spectrum of contemporary social science.