Abstract

The aim of this paper is to highlight the importance of space in the building of Modern thought and, on that basis, the foundation of geopolitical and geo-economic thought and practices that characterize what we now call globalization. It is in indeed on spatial forms of representation and understanding of reality, that signifies a rupture with the ontological orientation of Western premodern thought, that modern epistemology is developed making it possible for the West to think and engage the geopolitical and geo-economic appropriation of the Earth as a whole. I then sought in this work to account the process of constitution of Modernity that, on the basis of the fundamental quality of space and as, then, the organizer for the understanding of reality, operates the reconfiguration of the concept of space leading to the identification of the whole Earth with a homogeneous space, susceptible to the West of human habitation and appropriation.