ABSTRACT
Commonalities between Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Ricoeur are that they all invoke a life conception, while also interrogating relations between self and another with regard to an axis of inclusion and exclusion. Each offers a challenge to the Cartesian ego, giving emphasis to experience to challenge dry abstraction. The proposed spatial phenomenological approach in this book expands on implications of basic foundations of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Ricoeur’s thought. These implications are not necessarily intended by them, but are unthought latent potentialities in their work. The goals of this process are not to recreate Schopenhauer, Nietzsche or Ricoeur’s thought, but to develop a distinct vision as a spatial-phenomenology building on reserves in their texts that are ripe for amplification. A thesis of this book is that there are limited spatial-structural options as projected grounds or horizons for fundamental conceptualisation of boundaries, inclusion and exclusion, as part of a prelinguistic protolanguage. These are monism, diametric opposition and mirror image inverted symmetry (diametric space simpliciter), figure–ground, and concentric space. Space is a key mediator between the material and symbolic, the sensory and supersensory world. Whereas Descartes treated space as a lifeless nonentity, problematising space examines a prior spatial movement, pertaining to life. Key words: phenomenology, protolanguage, concentric space, diametric space, figure–ground, sensory, supersensory
