Mapping the Present: Heidegger, Foucault and the Project of a Spatial HistoryIn a late interview, Foucault, suggested that Heidegger was for him the "essential philosopher." Taking this claim seriously, Mapping the Present assesses the relationship between these two thinkers, particularly on the issue of space and history. It suggests that space and history need to be rethought, and combined as a spatial history, rather than as a history of space. In other words, space should become not merely an object of analysis, but a tool of analysis.The first half of the book concentrates on Heidegger: from the early occlusion of space, through the politically charged readings of Nietzsche and Holderlin, to the later work on art, technology and the polis which accord equal status to issues of spatiality. Foucault's work is then rethought in the light of the analysis of Heidegger, and the project of a spatial history established through re-readings of his works on madness and discipline.. |
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... Discipline and Punish – The Birth of the Prison (DP), Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976. Histoire de la sexualité III: Le souci de soi, Paris: Gallimard, 1984. Translated by Robert Hurley as The History of Sexuality Volume III: The Care of ...
... Discipline and Punish – The Birth of the Prison (DP), Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976. Histoire de la sexualité III: Le souci de soi, Paris: Gallimard, 1984. Translated by Robert Hurley as The History of Sexuality Volume III: The Care of ...
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... Discipline and Punish, Foucault always seemed to take into account the spatial elements of the historical question he was addressing. Second, these historical works – spatial through and through – have been incompletely understood, at ...
... Discipline and Punish, Foucault always seemed to take into account the spatial elements of the historical question he was addressing. Second, these historical works – spatial through and through – have been incompletely understood, at ...
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... Discipline and Punish framed as a history of the present? Is there a link between Foucault's understanding of the distinction between connaissance and savoir and the later notion of historical ontology? What is the theoretical base of ...
... Discipline and Punish framed as a history of the present? Is there a link between Foucault's understanding of the distinction between connaissance and savoir and the later notion of historical ontology? What is the theoretical base of ...
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... disciplined society – as spatial histories. The first of these histories is known to the English reader as Madness ... Discipline and Punish within this wider project allows us to see that the model for the disciplinary society is not ...
... disciplined society – as spatial histories. The first of these histories is known to the English reader as Madness ... Discipline and Punish within this wider project allows us to see that the model for the disciplinary society is not ...
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... discipline of historiography; Geschichte is history as it actually happens [geschieht], the events.13 Heidegger reads these three types of historiography as having distinct attitudes to time. The antiquarian approach orientates itself ...
... discipline of historiography; Geschichte is history as it actually happens [geschieht], the events.13 Heidegger reads these three types of historiography as having distinct attitudes to time. The antiquarian approach orientates itself ...
Contents
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Art Technology Place and the Political | 63 |
Towards a Spatial History | 93 |
The Spaces of Power | 120 |
Conclusion | 151 |
Notes | 155 |
Bibliography | 197 |
Index | 213 |
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