ABSTRACT
There is a general consensus in the literature that Husserl’s phenomenology prioritise place over space. While the tradition of modern philosophy and science holds that place merely ‘takes up space’ insofar as any representation of spatial relations or positions can only be determined within one absolute and infinite space, the claim is that phenomenology reveals the opposite: by taking our lived body (namely the place where we always find ourselves) as our starting point phenomenology, shows that our understanding of space is posterior to, if not even derived from our understanding of place. Against this reading this paper shows (1) that an appeal to embodiment does not question the priority of space and (2) that Husserl’s aim is not to question our scientific conception of space but to show that there is a conceptual continuity between intuitive and geometrical conceptions of space that has been severed by the modern outlook.
