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polychrome |
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In this imaginative and comprehensive study, Edward Casey, one of the most incisive interpreters of the Continental philosophical tradition, offers a philosophical history of the evolving conceptualizations of place and space in Western thought. Not merely a presentation of the ideas of other philosophers, 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 vir. |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface: Disappearing Places; Acknowledgments; Part One: From Void to Vessel; 1 Avoiding the Void: Primeval Patterns; 2 Mastering the Matrix: The Enuma Elish and Plato's Timaeus; 3 Place as Container: Aristotle's Physics; Part Two: From Place to Space; Interlude; 4 The Emergence of Space in Hellenistic and Neoplatonic Thought; 5 The Ascent of Infinite Space: Medieval and Renaissance Speculations; Part Three: The Supremacy of Space; Interim; 6 Modern Space as Absolute: Gassendi and Newton; 7 Modern Space as Extensive: Descartes |
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8 Modern Space as Relative: Locke and Leibniz9 Modern Space as Site and Point: Position, Panopticon, and Pure Form; Part Four: The Reappearance of Place; Transition; 10 By Way of Body: Kant, Whitehead, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty; 11 Proceeding to Place by Indirection: Heidegger; 12 Giving a Face to Place in the Present: Bachelard, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Derrida, Irigaray; Postface: Places Rediscovered; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Place (Philosophy)
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Place (Philosophy) |
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Space and time.
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Space and time. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Geschiedenis (vorm)
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Print version: Casey, Edward S. Fate of Place. University of California Press 2013 1299476198 |
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9780520954564 (electronic book) |
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0520954564 (electronic book) |
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1299476198 (e-book) |
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9781299476196 (e-book) |
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