The paper tries to give a survey of the historical development of physical and philosophical ideas of space after Descartes and Newton. A special focal point is Kant´s idea of a schematism and three kinds of afterglows of this idea; the notionof a work of art, the notion of scientific model, and finally the unity of action andspace in phenomenology. The paper suggests that works within the recent spatialturn perhaps have failed to rethink the unity between material, social, and personalrelations, and that an assessment of the later Wittgenstein´s micro-phenomenologycould pave the way for a stronger “second spatial turn”
