Book overview
DETERMINISM AND POSSIBILISM: A CRITICAL EPISTEMOLOGICAL ANALYSIS This book aims to present some of the guiding ideas, according to the predominant geographical thought, of the German deterministic geographical school originated mainly from the writings of Friedrich Ratzel, and the French possibilist geographical school originated mainly from the writings of Paul Vidal de La Blache. From this point on, it will carry out a critical epistemological analysis of these thoughts and how the majority of geographical thought treats them, showing possible inconsistencies and contradictions of this common thought, and that the original ideas were distorted, mainly from the German school, which was attacked and underestimated by a large part of the geographical school, while the French school was defended and praised by the same. It will also address the dichotomy of how these geographical schools were treated in the main Brazilian and Paran
