Geografía Política. Una breve historia filosófica

Abstract

The Classical antiquity elaborates the Political Geography as a study of the ways in which political sense of territory is formed and exercised. It is a conceptually profound knowledge that describes the relationship between territoriality and politicity. It is also able to interpret empirical situations, complex spatial formations and territorial processes. The Middle Ages connect to the classical traditions giving them new impulses according to the leanings and the concerns of that time. The Medieval political geography reaches its conceptual and expressive peak in the verb-iconic “trattato” by Ambrogio Lorenzetti. But the height of sienese medieval frescoes introduces also to the Renaissance decadence and the subsequent modern dissolution of the Political Geography in the most important European thinkers. That is from Botero to Montesquieu, from Machiavelli to Voltaire, from Hobbes to Kant. During the disciplinary institutionalization, the genealogy of this ancient form of knowledge appears compromised. So we can assist to a process of re-foundation by Ratzel, Mackinder and Vidal de la Blache. Considering this brief philosophical history, it is needed a reflexive epistemology to define and continuously update the ideological and cognitive status of a foundational knowledge of Western scientific tradition.

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