AN APPROXIMATION BETWEEN PEIRCE'S PHENOMENOLOGICAL CATEGORIES AND THE GEOGRAPHIC SPACE CONCEPT IN DOREEN MASSEY

Abstract

This article has the objective to construct some approximations between the phenomenological categories of Charles Sanders Peirce and the concept of geographic space defended by Doreen Massey. For this, a synthesis of the main characteristics of the firstness, secondness and thirdness categories was performed in order to highlight their recurrences and their viability in the geographic space analysis. In a second moment, the principles that guide Massey's conception of the central object of Geography have been rescued, bringing it closer to the more predominant features of the phenomenological categories. As a result, there was a defense of the author to the aspects of Peircean firstness, as opposed to the predominance of inevitability and thirdness propagated by great global actors on the geographic space.