. It is this geographical environment,
Anuchin argues, that is the proper and single
object of study of the unified science of geog
raphy; and so long as the discipline persists in
jealously preserving its present fragmented
state, what he regards as the paramount impor
tance of regional geography will be repudiated,
along with its scientific content; the whole
of earth science will be reduced .to natural
(Continued on back flap)Although more than a decade has gone by since Anuchin's
book appeared, the intellectual climate and the state of de
velopment of world geography seem to make the 1970s, if
anything, an even more propitious time for putting out an
English translation than prevailed immediately after its origi
nal appearance in the Soviet Union.
In the first place, no one can fail to have become conscious
of the sudden revelation of "environment" or "ecology" as
urgent, if rather vague concepts in the minds of a broad spec
trum of the population in the industrialized countries. The fact
that the environment is increasingly being apprehended as a
pervasively humanized, rather than merely a physical cate
gory, greatly broadens the potential significance of Anuchin's
elaboration of his central concept — the geographical envi
ronment. On the plane of academic geographical thought,
there can be little doubt that a parallel qualitative change of
fundamental importance is taking place in America and cer
tain other countries. In some respects it may be said to be
"counterrevolutionary," in relation to the so-called quantita
tive revolution of a decade or so ago. Rather like the Roman
tic Protest of the early nineteenth century against the intellec
tual sway of the Enlightenment, a reaction seems to have set
in against what is now seen as an unduly mechanistic preoc
cupation with technique, precision, analysis of contemporary
systems, and over-emphasis on economic at the expense of
social, historical, or environmental factors. Alongside this
development has been a revival of interest in geographical
theory conceived more in terms of long-term purpose and
philosophy than short-run method and technique, though in
the latter case, one hopes, taking care to preserve and incor
. It is this geographical environment,
Anuchin argues, that is the proper and single
object of study of the unified science of geog
raphy; and so long as the discipline persists in
jealously preserving its present fragmented
state, what he regards as the paramount impor
tance of regional geography will be repudiated,
along with its scientific content; the whole
of earth science will be reduced .to natural
(Continued on back flap)Although more than a decade has gone by since Anuchin's
book appeared, the intellectual climate and the state of de
velopment of world geography seem to make the 1970s, if
anything, an even more propitious time for putting out an
English translation than prevailed immediately after its origi
nal appearance in the Soviet Union.
In the first place, no one can fail to have become conscious
of the sudden revelation of "environment" or "ecology" as
urgent, if rather vague concepts in the minds of a broad spec
trum of the population in the industrialized countries. The fact
that the environment is increasingly being apprehended as a
pervasively humanized, rather than merely a physical cate
gory, greatly broadens the potential significance of Anuchin's
elaboration of his central concept — the geographical envi
ronment. On the plane of academic geographical thought,
there can be little doubt that a parallel qualitative change of
fundamental importance is taking place in America and cer
tain other countries. In some respects it may be said to be
"counterrevolutionary," in relation to the so-called quantita
tive revolution of a decade or so ago. Rather like the Roman
tic Protest of the early nineteenth century against the intellec
tual sway of the Enlightenment, a reaction seems to have set
in against what is now seen as an unduly mechanistic preoc
cupation with technique, precision, analysis of contemporary
systems, and over-emphasis on economic at the expense of
social, historical, or environmental factors. Alongside this
development has been a revival of interest in geographical
theory conceived more in terms of long-term purpose and
philosophy than short-run method and technique, though in
the latter case, one hopes, taking care to preserve and incor
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