Lefebvre The concept of Interaction is more relevant in the philosophy of the French sociologist Henry Lefebvre, which considered this notion as an important aspect of his theoretical framework used to describe the space. Lefebvre, as Merlau-Ponty, was active during the 20th century and his diverse contributions to socio-spatial and urban theory have inspired considerable commentary in recent years. His philosophical view is influenced by the Marxist theories of societal conflict and production; and in his prolific career he wrote many important essays on the topic of space. The main resource I consider here is his book ‘The Production of Space’. At the very beginning of this text Lefebvre offers a brief excursus on the epistemological theories and the scientific approach to space: “The scientific attitude, understood as the application of 'epistemological' thinking to acquired knowledge, is assumed to be 'structurally' linked to the spatial sphere. This connection, presumed to be self- evident from the point of view of scientific discourse, is never conceptualized”. 25 The epistemological thought, as we also saw at the beginning of this dissertation, discerns the status of space from the status of subject. This absolute conception of space is informal and objective and can be
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