Main entry:

Casey, Edward S., 1939-

Title & Author:

The fate of place : a philosophical history / Edward S. Casey.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1997.

Description:

xviii, 488 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
"A centennial book"--Page [ii].
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-477) and index.
From void to vessel. Avoiding the void : primeval patterns -- Mastering the matrix : the Enuma elish and Plato's Timaeus -- Place as container : Aristotle's Physics -- From place to space. Interlude -- The emergence of space in Hellenistic and Neoplatonic thought -- The ascent of infinite space : medieval and Renaissance speculations -- The supremacy of space. Interim -- Modern space as absolute : Gassendi and Newton -- Modern space as extensive : Descartes -- Modern space as relative : Lock and Leibniz -- Modern space as site and point : position, panopticon, and pure form -- The reappearance of place. Transition -- By way of body : Kant, Whitehead, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty -- Proceeding to a place by indirection : Heidegger -- Giving a face to place in the present : Bachelard, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Derrida, Irigaray -- Postface : places rediscovered.

Summary:

Not merely a presentation of the ideas of other thinkers, The Fate of Place is acutely sensitive to silences, absences, and missed opportunities in the complex history of philosophical approaches to space and place. A central theme is the increasing neglect of place in favor of space from the seventh century A.D. onward, amounting to the virtual exclusion of place from philosophical thought by the end of the eighteenth century.
Casey begins with mythological and religious creation stories and the theories of Plato and Aristotle and then explores the heritage of Neoplatonic, medieval, and Renaissance speculations about space. He presents an impressive history of the birth of modern spatial conceptions in the writings of Newton, Descartes, Locke, Leibniz, and Kant, and delineates the evolution of twentieth-century phenomenological approaches in the work of Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Bachelard, and Heidegger. In the book's final section, Casey explores the postmodern theories of Foucault, Derrida, Tschumi, Deleuze and Guattari, and Irigaray. His book will interest philosophers, environmentalists, architects, art historians, and readers in cultural and literary studies.

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ISBN:

0520202961 (alk. paper)
9780520202962 (alk. paper)
0520216490
9780520216495

Subject:

Raum, ...
Place (Philosophy)
Space and time.
Lieu (Philosophie)
Espace et temps.
08.20 history of western philosophy: general.
Geschichte
Philosophie
Zeit
Raum
Ruimte (algemeen)
Plaats.
Filosofie.
Espace (philosophie)

Form/genre:

History (form)
Derrida copy Inscriptions (Provenance) NjP

Holdings:

Location: Library main 135056
Call No.: ID B105.P53.C36; ID:97-B638
Status: Available