From Existential Spatiality to the Metric Science of Space (An Attempt at Reconstructing an Aspect of Existential Analytic)

From Existential Spatiality to the Metric Science of Space (An Attempt at Reconstructing an Aspect of Existential Analytic)

This paper is intended to be an account of existential spatiality based on an analogy with Heidegger’s way of treating the issues of ecstatic temporality. The paper first situates the nexus of “existential spatiality and formal space”. It then proceeds to the role of the various types of spatiality in existential analytic. There are certain parallels with Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of bodily experience. Finally, the scope of existential spatiality is delineated.