Tempo e espaço: onde as teorias da natureza se encontram com as da cultura

Abstract

Based on the need to understand social interactions in the present moment, which were accelerated by the use of information technologies, this article proposes to discuss how the concepts of time and space, used by the natural sciences as well as in the humanities, have changed in history. Its goal, through an interdisciplinary text, is to re-approximate these fields of knowledge. To do so, it retrieves how the concepts of time and space of physics, from Aristotle, Galilei, Newton and Einstein, and from the human sciences, with Marx, Weber, Harvey, Bauman and Giddens, have varied in history to demonstrate that changes in one area may correspond to transformations in the way of seeing time and space in another area of knowledge. As a result of the analysis, it points to the approximation of Aristotle’s theories with Marx, Weber with Galileo and Newton, and contemporary authors of the human sciences with Einstein.

Keywords

• time and space
• human sciences
• natural sciences
• cultural sciences