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Possibilities of Place in Continental Thought
Critique, Politics, Philosophy
Possibilities of Place in Continental Thought
Critique, Politics, Philosophy
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Exploring the critical potential of place in continental philosophy, Possibilities of Place in Continental Thought tests the political and ontological valences of this concept to go beyond the limits of existing geographical and phenomenological approaches.
Considering place as emergent, relational and enveloping, or in connection to passage, becoming or redemption, the contributions to this volume point to the possibilities inherent in philosophical uses of place. By rejecting a singular and homogenous theory of place, this collection collapses the dichotomies that tend to characterize the discourse on place in favour of a plural conceptualization. It draws attention to the spatial and temporal dynamics within varying theoretical and historical contexts and moves the field forward in significant and vital ways.
Table of Contents
Jussi Palmusaari and Nicolas Schneider
PART I. CRITICAL READINGS OF PLACE
1. 'Speaking from': Loci of Enunciation in the Geopolitics of Knowledge
Marie-Louise Krogh and Lucie K. Mercier
2. Leibniz's Conception of Place Against Casey's Critique
Stephen Howard
3. Theory of the Nonplace
Bruno Bosteels
4. Topologies of Judgement: Arendt, Schürmann, and Shell on the Politics of Kantian sensus communis
Nicolas Schneider
PART II. THEORIZING POLITICS AND HISTORY WITH PLACE
5. Places and Space-Times of Slave Resistance: From the Saint John Suicides to the Nanny Town Maroons (1600–1800)
Elsa Dorlin
6. Places of History: Politics and Time
Sophie Wahnich
7. Places of Passage: Guy Debord on the Spectacular Organization of Social Space
Tom Bunyard
8. Place and Metaphor: Althusser's Topology
Jussi Palmusaari
9. Around and Through: The Envelope and the Outside
Bernard Aspe
PART III. (DIS)PLACING ONTOLOGIES
10. Atopos: Hermeneutics and the Out-Of-Place of Understanding
Donatella Di Cesare
11. Phenomenology of Location and Localization: Emergent Places and Immersive Space
Martin Nitsche
12. Roomily-Durational Openness: The Place of Creative Becoming
Tina Röck
13. A Place Free from and for Law: Franz von Baader on the Redemption of Time and Space
Mårten Björk
Contributors
Bibliography
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Product details

Published | 05 Sep 2024 |
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Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 304 |
ISBN | 9781350282650 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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This volume marks an exciting step forward in asserting place as a specific mode and medium of conceptual inquiry. Far more than a designated site in which events happen and meanings accrue, place occasions the very possibility and process of thought. In this, the volume is acutely sensitive to the ways that place 'moves' – refusing singular definitions, offering new ways of thinking critically and creatively.
Jessica Dubow, Professor of Cultural Geography, Lancaster University, UK
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One of the casualties of catastrophic climate change is the very possibility of place, for human and other-than-human beings alike. In this volume, Jussi Palmusaari and Nicolas Schneider have assembled a stellar group of scholars, who examine this possibility from a wide range of philosophical perspectives. What is at stake here is not only "philosophy," "critique" or "thought", but the future of place in the age of being displaced and unplaced.
Michael Marder, author (with Edward S. Casey) of Plants in Place: A Phenomenology of the Vegetal
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The “possibilities of place” this volume promises are invigorating, persuasive, and sometimes surprising. Place is seen to not just be static or nostalgic, but the space of creativity, political possibility, and shared meaningful action. This is a wonderful addition to the burgeoning philosophical literature on place.
Bruce Janz, Professor of Humanities, Department of Philosophy, University of Central Florida

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