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Author Malpas, Jeff, author.

Title Place and experience : a philosophical topography / Jeff Malpas
Edition Second edition
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2018

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Description 1 online resource : text file, PDF
Contents The influence of place -- The obscurity of place -- The structure of spatiality -- Holism, content, and self -- Unity, locality, and agency -- Agency and objectivity -- SeIf and the space of others -- The unity and complexity of place -- Place, past, and person Place and world -- Topography and the place of philosophy
Summary "The first edition of Place and Experience established Jeff Malpas as one of the leading philosophers and thinkers of place and space and provided a creative and refreshing alternative to prevailing post-structuralist and postmodern theories of place. It is a foundational and ground-breaking book in its attempt to lay out a sustained and rigorous account of place and its significance. The main argument of Place and Experience has three strands: first, that human being is inextricably bound to place; second, that place encompasses subjectivity and objectivity, being reducible to neither but foundational to both; and third that place, which is distinct from, but also related to space and time, is methodologically and ontologically fundamental. The development of this argument involves considerations concerning the nature of place and its relation to space and time; the character of that mode of philosophical investigation that is oriented to place and that is referred to as 'philosophical topography'; the nature of subjectivity and objectivity as inter-related concepts that also connect with intersubjectivity; and the way place is tied to memory, identity, and the self. Malpas draws on a rich array of writers and philosophers, including Wordsworth, Kant, Proust, Heidegger and Donald Davidson. This second edition is revised throughout, including a new chapter on the consequences of the human embeddedness in place, especially as this relates to the ethical and politics, and a new foreword by Edward Casey. It also includes a new set of additional features, such as chapter summaries, illustrations, annotated further reading, and a glossary, which make this second edition more useful to teachers and students alike."--Provided by publisher
Subject Place (Philosophy)
Place (Philosophy)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781315265445
1315265443
9781351967198
1351967193
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1351967177