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The article examines the terms earth, globe and world as central ciphers of geographical thinking and places them in a genealogy of the history of ideas and science. The focus is on the current boom in planetary thinking, which is fanned out into two currents: on the one hand in (earth) system-theoretical totality, on the other hand in post-humanist perspectives on co-existence. In both discourses, a new Copernican turn is claimed, whose metaphorological content, however, points to a continuation of post-Copernican ambivalence. Based on Hans Blumenberg's metaphorology, it is shown how planetary semantics oscillates between epistemic upheaval and anthropocentric self-assertion (Selbstbehauptung). The article is intended as a plea for a stronger reception of humanities thinking styles in geography. Here, metaphorology proves to be an approach to the critical reflection of disciplinary world and self-relations under the sign of planetarism. The euphoric welcome of planetary thinking in geography and the pleas for a new Copernican turn are evidence of the unbroken discursive power of this metaphor.
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@article{Runkel2026Mehr,
title = {Mehr-als-irdische Geographien und die zweite Kopernikanische Wende des planetarischen Denkens. Eine metaphorologische Kritik},
author = {Simon Runkel},
journal = {Geographica Helvetica},
year = {2026},
doi = {10.5194/gh-81-517-2026},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-517-2026}
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