| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction : The intelligence of place / Jeff Malpas -- 1. Place and a kind of sentience : these trees in particular / Susan Stewart -- 2. Place and limit / Massimo Cacciari -- 3. Place and edge / Edward S. Casey -- 4. Place and loss / Jessica Dubow -- 5. Place and histories : writing other people's memories / Lucy R. Lippard -- 6. Place and singularity / Jeff Malpas -- 7. Place and its mediated re-placements / Joshua Meyrowitz -- 8. Place and atmosphere / Juhani Pallasmaa -- 9. Place and architectural space / Alberto Perez-Gomez -- 10. Place and connection / Edward Relph -- 11. Place and sensory composition / Kathleen Stewart -- 12. Place and formulation / Kenneth White |
| Summary |
Place has become a widespread concept in contemporary work in the humanities, creative arts, and social sciences. Yet in spite of its centrality, place remains a concept more often deployed than interrogated, and there are relatively few works that focus directly on the concept of place as such. The Intelligence of Place fills this gap, providing an exploration of place from various perspectives, encompassing anthropology, architecture, geography, media, philosophy, and the arts, and as it stands in relation to a range of other concepts. Drawing together many of the key thinkers currently |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Place (Philosophy)
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Philosophy: aesthetics.
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Ethics & moral philosophy.
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Philosophy.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics.
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Place (Philosophy)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Malpas, Jeff, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781472588692 |
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147258869X |
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1472588681 |
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9781472588685 |
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9781474272872 |
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1474272878 |
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