Pragmatisme et géopolitique - Les opportunités méthodologiques d’une retrouvaille épistémologique

The transposition of pragmatism appears to geography can make to all levels (from local to global) responses to the epistemological debate that stirred the discipline for many years. It allows him to escape before any punitive alternative between positivism and constructivism. Geopolitics, more spec...

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Main Author: Gérard Dussouy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université de Reims Champagne-Ardennes 2011-02-01
Series:L'Espace Politique
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/espacepolitique/1752
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description The transposition of pragmatism appears to geography can make to all levels (from local to global) responses to the epistemological debate that stirred the discipline for many years. It allows him to escape before any punitive alternative between positivism and constructivism. Geopolitics, more specifically, pragmatism can contribute to conceptual and methodological renewal. On the one hand, it allows overcoming the simplistic definitions well known, and raising the level of a spatial ontology pluralistic, anti-essentialist and plural-perspectivist. On the other hand, leading him to renounce any representationalist theory (the one who wants a "copy of reality”), pragmatist epistemology releases the confinement of the geopolitical paradigm into the science of spatial configurations of actors and authorities. Through Hermeneutics that rehabilitates, pragmatism offers the geopolitical methodological approach, holistic and reflexive in multiple contexts.
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spelling doaj-art-164369a53af34a52a04ea35d8833d35b2025-08-20T02:26:42ZengUniversité de Reims Champagne-ArdennesL'Espace Politique1958-55002011-02-011210.4000/espacepolitique.1752Pragmatisme et géopolitique - Les opportunités méthodologiques d’une retrouvaille épistémologiqueGérard DussouyThe transposition of pragmatism appears to geography can make to all levels (from local to global) responses to the epistemological debate that stirred the discipline for many years. It allows him to escape before any punitive alternative between positivism and constructivism. Geopolitics, more specifically, pragmatism can contribute to conceptual and methodological renewal. On the one hand, it allows overcoming the simplistic definitions well known, and raising the level of a spatial ontology pluralistic, anti-essentialist and plural-perspectivist. On the other hand, leading him to renounce any representationalist theory (the one who wants a "copy of reality”), pragmatist epistemology releases the confinement of the geopolitical paradigm into the science of spatial configurations of actors and authorities. Through Hermeneutics that rehabilitates, pragmatism offers the geopolitical methodological approach, holistic and reflexive in multiple contexts.https://journals.openedition.org/espacepolitique/1752contextantirepresentationalismcomplexityconfigurationhermeneuticsinter-paradigmatism
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title Pragmatisme et géopolitique - Les opportunités méthodologiques d’une retrouvaille épistémologique
title_full Pragmatisme et géopolitique - Les opportunités méthodologiques d’une retrouvaille épistémologique
title_fullStr Pragmatisme et géopolitique - Les opportunités méthodologiques d’une retrouvaille épistémologique
title_full_unstemmed Pragmatisme et géopolitique - Les opportunités méthodologiques d’une retrouvaille épistémologique
title_short Pragmatisme et géopolitique - Les opportunités méthodologiques d’une retrouvaille épistémologique
title_sort pragmatisme et geopolitique les opportunites methodologiques d une retrouvaille epistemologique
topic context
antirepresentationalism
complexity
configuration
hermeneutics
inter-paradigmatism
url https://journals.openedition.org/espacepolitique/1752
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