Open AccessA Hermeneutic Introduction to Maps
Author(s) -
Paolo Furia
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
études ricoeuriennes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2156-7808
DOI - 10.5195/errs.2021.569
Subject(s) - transcendental number , objectification , interpretation (philosophy) , epistemology , subject (documents) , object (grammar) , space (punctuation) , sociology , point (geometry) , philosophy , computer science , mathematics , artificial intelligence , geometry , linguistics , library science
The aim of this article is to show how a Ricœurian approach to space and place is likely to raise issues about geography and even cartography, rather than just ontological topology in a Heideggerian fashion. Two steps will lead towards that conclusion: the first concerns the role of Ricœur’s long détour in the transition from a transcendental—therefore empty—notion of place to the concrete plurality of places, which turns them into matters for interpretation; the second shows how the task of interpreting of places implies distanciation and even objectification, through which they are constituted as objects of scientific and critical investigation. Maps will be introduced at that point as specific interpretations of places, halfway between text and images, between the subject and the object, and between science and art.