Principles of Humanism and Themes in Humanistic Geography
Humanistic geography studies human awareness and human agency, human consciousness and human creativity. It, therefore, deals with the meaning, value and human significance of life events. It interprets man-space relationship with the historical approach. Humanism is a subjective approach which aims at verstehn, i.e., understanding of man in his environment. Kirk was the first geographer to advocate a humanistic approach [...]