The works of the geographer Elisée Reclus (1830-1905) provide a fruitful analysis of the relationship between the ideas about nature and the history of the society where those works emerge. Focusing on his works, one can realize the parallels between his very original geographical and anarchical ideas, as compared to the predominant paradigms of the 19th Century. Reclus was suspicious of the determinist systems offered by the mathematics of his time. He questioned the causal philosophical explanations of the possibilities of social inventions, in a very instigating interpretation of the Evolutionism. His thought joined nature and society, revolution and philosophy, history and geography, scientific works and political practices.
Nature and Society; Evolutionism and Anarchism; History and Geography