Place and Experience: A Philosophical Topography


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While the "sense of place" is a familiar theme in poetry and art, philosophers have generally given little or no attention to place and the human relation to place. Jeff Malpas seeks to remedy this by advancing an account of the nature and significance of place as a complex but unitary structure that encompasses self and other, space and time, subjectivity and objectivity. He argues that our relation to place derives from the very nature of human thought, experience and identity as established in and through place.Place and Experience: A Philosophical Topography Review
This book, like all good philosophy, begins in wonder and in true Heideggerian manner, explores the boundaries of our being by providing a map of the context in which we place ourselves, in which we *have* to place ourselves to understand ourselves. The style is erudite but accessible, the line of argument forceful and clear and the reader in making new discoveries about Malpas's ideas on self and being through a rich pastiche of literary and philosophical texts may discover new things about him or herself. I plan to use it for a postgraduate text for teachers as it allows readers to make sense of their positioning not only in landscapes of memory but in social spaces.Most of the consumer Reviews tell that the "Place and Experience: A Philosophical Topography" are high quality item. You can read each testimony from consumers to find out cons and pros from Place and Experience: A Philosophical Topography ...

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