SCIENCE AND AESTHETIC IN HUMBOLDTIAN SCIENCE AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

Abstract

The present work examines the artistic and philosophical foundations that influenced the humboldtian science constitution that we constituted genetically in the base of the modern geographical thought. The humboldtian science it constituted starting from a complex debate that occurred in century XVIII, having as base the thought about aesthetics and Kant's theleologic and that was developed from the naturphilosophie with Schelling, Schiller and Goethe. The product is spaciality concept generation, morphologic category and representation aesthetics that allows the communication and the knowledge generation. At this moment, they were formed the bases for the organization of the modern geography, in terms of object and of method.