Name: LUANA RODARTE OLIVEIRA ZADOROSNY
Type: MSc dissertation
Publication date: 21/03/2019
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| LUIS CARLOS TOSTA DOS REIS | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| IGOR MARTINS MEDEIROS ROBAINA | Internal Examiner * |
| LUIS CARLOS TOSTA DOS REIS | Advisor * |
Summary: This study is structured around the articulation of three basic elements. The first
element refers to the thematic scope and corresponds to the ontology of space as
the ―formal object‖ of research in Geographic Science. We propose it's
problematization through two different methodologies that correspond with the two
elements referred to in the methodological scope: the horizon of the radical/critical
approach associated with marxist historical and dialectical materialism and the
Heidegger's philosophy approach, which is through the hermeneutic phenomenology.
These three elements in the problematization have been recorded in the
historiography of Geography since the innovative movement initiated in the 1970's. In
that moment both the assimilation of the ontological reflection of space with the
constitution of the horizon of radical/critical approach and the assimilation of
phenomenology with the Heideggerian thought in the core of the constitution of the
humanistic horizon of the subject became permanent. The research addresses the
topic of the ontological foundation of space and its articulation of the issue
concerning nature-society relationships, through the parallel with the methods of
investigation highlighted previously that, through their particular features, contribute
to the theoretical arguments and debates in the field under different perspectives,
scope and purpose. On the one hand, it presents a trait of ontological thinking
marked by the influence of the marxist/luckácsian theories and determined
essentially by the ontology of the social being. This is an ontological problematization
that is carried out considering the centrality of the notion of work (or social
production) as an ontological principle that is widely echoed in the analysis of the
reality and in the formulation of a spatial theory in the discipline. On the other hand, it
presents the basic indispensable elements to develop an ontological investigation on
a phenomenological basis. The basic terms of the heideggerian project are exposed
through the following elements: the ontological difference between being and beings,
the analytic of being-there as a source towards investigations on the notion of being,
the analysis of the structure being-in-the-world and the mundanity of the world and,
in the core of the existential analytic, the phenomenological questioning of space as
a phenomenon rooted in the being-there. Both propositions are fundamentally
divergent to the trait that the question about the nature-society relationships acquires
as a result of their most fundamental conjectures.
