In the Brightness of Place: Topological Thinking with and After Heidegger

Jeff Malpas

Published by SUNY Press 2022

In the Brightness of Place

Topological Thinking with and After Heidegger

Jeff Malpas

In the series SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781438490045

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About this book

Drawing on a range of sources in philosophy and literature, but with particular reference to the work of Heidegger, makes a compelling case for the importance of place in philosophical discourse.

Author / Editor information

Jeff Malpas is Emeritus Distinguished Professor at the University of Tasmania in Australia. His many books include Rethinking Dwelling: Heidegger, Place, Architecture and The Fundamental Field: Thought, Poetics, World (coauthored with Kenneth White).

Reviews

"…[an] excellent new volume … the book is a genuine success, a remarkable study of the later Heidegger that should speak to readers in the environmental humanities, philosophy, critical theory, and more." — H-Net Reviews (H-Environment)

"This thought-provoking book will be of significant interest to students of Heidegger and of topology … Highly recommended." — CHOICE

"Malpas has long been the leading figure in debates about Heidegger, philosophy and place. Building on that pioneering work, In the Brightness of Place represents an important contribution to several fields, most obviously around place, geography and landscape, but also to literature. The opening chapter on Heidegger's notorious 'Black Notebooks' is particularly impressive. It treats them seriously—philosophically, politically, biographically—and shows how they can shed light on important issues in the reading and assessment of Heidegger." — Stuart Elden, author of The Early Foucault

"In this magisterial book, Jeff Malpas lucidly sets forth the full span of Heidegger's later thought. He draws the curtain on a broader vista than one might ever have imagined, ranging from meditations on the "other beginning" and the 'turning' to rethinking emotion and reason. He shows how what might otherwise appear to be a scattered multiplicity of topics gravitates around place understood as a deeply coherent core of Heidegger's mature work. He demonstrates not just the plausibility of this core but just how unrefusable it is when taken seriously. The result is a triumph not only in Heidegger scholarship but in building a case for 'the essentially placed character of being.' The author's luminous prose—which draws on many sources, not only philosophical (ranging from Hume and Kant to Arendt and Benjamin) but poetic and historical—conveys to us a profound truth of the human condition: to be is to be in place." — Edward S. Casey, author of The World on Edge and Turning Emotion Inside Out

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Front Matter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
In the Brightness of Place Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Out of History to Topology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
The “Anthropology” of the World Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
On Not Naturalizing Heidegger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Ontology and Hermeneutics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Language and Place Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
The Refusal of Metaphor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Finding Ourselves in the World Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Technology and Spatialization Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
From Extremity to Releasement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Where Are We When We Think? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Epilogue To the Other Beginning Joe Fell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
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Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
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Language: English
Publisher: SUNY Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 322
Illustrations
- Other: Total Illustrations: 3
Keywords: Literature : Literature; Cultural Studies : Cultural Studies; Philosophy : Continental Philosophy; Religion and Spirituality : Religion; General Interest : General Interest

eBook

Published: September 1, 2022
ISBN: 9781438490045