According to Alfred Schutz, the spatial categories we employ in everyday life arise from our embodiment. A person is “interested above all in that sector of his everyday world which lies within his reach and which arranges itself spatially and temporally around him as its center.” Relative to this center, one carves up the surrounding world at its egocentric joints: right, left, above, below, in front of, behind, near, far. The world within “actual reach” is basically oriented according to proximity and distance. This reachable world “embraces not only actually perceived objects but also
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