José Luis Romanillos is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Exeter. His publications have engaged with Hegel, Heidegger and Bataille to explore the spatial dimensions of mortality and finitude, the politics of mourning and the geographical work of literature.

• AcknowledgementsFiguresIntroduction: Geography, geophilosophy and the earthPart One: Bifurcations of the prefix 'geo'1 Meteorology or the celestial and terrestrial2 Earth, food and religion3 The anexactPart Two: Omphalos4 The navel of the earth5 Structures around the sacrificial stone6 Animality or the bowels of the earthCoda: Re-animating the geographical archiveBibliographyIndex

An ambitious, fascinating and wide-ranging discussion of the manifold senses of the term geo, and the relation between geography, philosophy and the history of ideas. From Ancient Greek thought to philosophers including Hegel, Heidegger, Deleuze and Guattari and Sloterdijk, Romanillos is a sure-footed guide along many underexplored paths.