Name: ALEXSANDRO COSTA DE SOUSA
Publication date: 28/03/2025
Examining board:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| ALMIR NABOZNY | Examinador Externo |
| CARLOS ROBERTO BERNARDES DE SOUZA JÚNIOR | Examinador Externo |
| CHRISTIAN JEAN-MARIE BOUDOU | Examinador Externo |
| IGOR MARTINS MEDEIROS ROBAINA | Examinador Interno |
| LUIS CARLOS TOSTA DOS REIS | Presidente |
Summary: The present thesis [journey], through the hermeneutic interpretation of Peter
Sloterdijk works, especially the Spheres trilogy: Bubbles, Globes and Foams,
consists of aspiring an intersection between the philosopher's thought and
geographic science, focusing on two elements that, primarily, would safeguard
this intersection, namely: ontotopology and relationships. The initial scope is to
cross, througout these phenomena, but with a special focus on
Phenomenological Geography and its opening to a greater amplitude when
studying space. Space, as a rule, as we recognize, is predominantly given to us
in a way that makes us think in a static way, in a hermetic fixity. However, based
on Peter Sloterdijk’s thinking, it is notead that and, above all, the need to
overcome this established and predominant way of considering space, especially
when we need to further amplify ontological studies on space, place and
existence, key subjects to in Geography. Therefore, the thesis proposes to reach
its goal through what will be designated as a journey, understood as the
accomplishment of a research that will be carried out through routes, from which
it is possible to broaden the debate on the subject, pursuing new openings and
expanding new corridors that allow us to reach new geographical and
phenomenological horizons grounded in a sufficiently consistent way, through,
mainly, the work of Sloterdijk. Based on theories of immunization systems,
mediology, contained in Peter Sloterdijk’s General Theory of Spheres, the thesis
also proposes such a transposition [journey] taking this philosopher as a
fundamental piece to generate the intended encounters in articulation with
geographic science. Along the traced routes, it will be possible to better highlight
the purpose of the journey through Ontology and Phenomenology, welcoming
Peter Sloterdijk’s Theory of Spheres. I anticipate that navigating through the seas
that the thesis will navigate can lead to different paths, however, in terms of the
routes of this work, space is the key and through which it will be linked to a
perspective that permeates the composition of what Sloterdijk calls under the
notion of Spheres, as well as our nature as designers of interior spaces, intimacy
and immunization systems, there will be a possibility of reaching “dry land”. The
field of Geography, in this sense, breaks with a fundamental limitation: that space,
to be understood, must only be apprehended as the space of physical, palpable
extension, and that its abstract attributes - which distance themselves from the
element associated with physical extension - are not considered relevant for its
interpretation and explanation. The present thesis is not consistent with such a
restrictive perspective of understanding the meaning of space, but, on the
contrary, aspires to a path that is capable of transcending this vision.
