EDWARD W. SOJA – CITITOR AL HETEROTOPIILOR LUI MICHEL FOUCAULT
Edward W. Soja – reader of Michel Foucault's heterotopias

Summary/Abstract: The present study admits the observation, the analysis, and comments upon how Edward W. Soja's interpretive filter is applied to the work that reflects Michel Foucault's thinking system, approaching the geo-spatial valences, recalling in the foucault-ian concept of heterotopia as well as in Soja's third space, the different rethinking of the meanings attached to space/spatial concepts. The effect thus imprinted is one that tests both the old (still in use) forms/formulas and the amplification of the critical sensitivity to the expanded spatial-geographic imagination.As reader of Foucault's heterotopias, Edward W. Soja follows a semantic and a philosophical direction, which the present study highlights through a guiding preposition – Foucault's lecture with Lefebvre and a reading with Foucault (in the footsteps of Derek Gregory and Cornel West) – in order to extract from here both the coordinating report – Soja and Foucault – as well as the observations regarding Soja's heterotopology of the third space.

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