La spazialità geografica interroga il concetto di intuizione

Abstract

Starting from Merleau-Ponty’s critique of the concept of intuition and from a glimpsed ne-cessity to elaborate a third way, alternative to both reflection and intuition, we question phenomenological geography, or mesology, in order to propose a geographical solution. Analysing the relation living-milieu and focusing the attention on spatial perception and corporeality, reflection and intuition give way to a gesture that is both understanding and expressing. In such a way, the boundary between thought and action gets hybridized and an embodied cognition emerges, something which is outlined in the present work through some emblematic practices that give value to the aesthetic dimension.