The Errors of the "Heidegger's Mistake": Saving Self-Being Through the Non-Other

This essay inscribes a critique of Humanistic Geography informed by the philosophical ideas of Martin Heidegger. Drawing on a symptomatic dialogue with representative texts of Brazilian Humanistic Geography and its international counterparts, I investigate broader topolítica [topopolitics] implications for the field of phenomenologically oriented scientific production, questioning certain uses of ethically unreflective ideas and the absolutized errância do pensamento [wandering of thought] that lacks epistemic context. Methodologically, I construct a montação [montage] of "the Heidegger case," bringing to light four conditions of confrontation: 1. essentialist binarisms; 2. tautological variation; 3. concealment of theoretical-ethical diversity; 4. denial of symbolic violence. I propose a leap beyond these conditions as a starting point for a propositional reinvention of Brazilian Humanistic Geography, beginning with desobediência fenomenológica [phenomenological disobedience] in the face of the Heideggerian shadow.