Between Inside and Outside: Overcoming Spatial Dualism with Gaston Bachelard and Louis-Marie Chauvet
Abstract
In the process of the reception of the other we think within the adverbs of space inside and outside. These adverbs are part of a dualistic way of thinking and as such bring ontological determination, where inside is connected with fullness of being and outside with the lack of being.
Behind these metaphorical expressions of space lies alienation as a consequence also bring asymmetry into human relationships. With the help of the French phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, especially with his philosophical investigation of inhabited space, and the contemporary French sacramental theologian Louis-Marie Chauvet, the chapter explores the possibilities of how to surmount the spatial dualism. which goes hand-in-hand with the instrumental notion of being and language.