ABSTRACT
This chapter uses concepts put forward by Jean Paul Sartre in an attempt to provide a heuristic basis for such a methodology. Sartre's major work, Critique of dialectical reason, is an unfinished attempt to overcome the duality of Cartesian reasoning, and the show the possibility, indeed the necessity, for a single, but dialectical, logic for thought and engagement with the world. Sartre dedicated much of his career to the project of overcoming idealism of all forms, whether as the assignment of a non-material status to knowledge or ideas, or the separation of knowledge from the act of knowing. Sartre also claimed that 'superstructures' constitute regions of relative autonomy above the relations of production and praxis. The making of landscape as shared, organized human activity provides one of the fundamental bases for geographical study. The landscape itself provides material manifestation of the intelligibility of human action, and is a means by which historical conditions can be interpreted and understood.
