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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Heidegger, Foucault and the Project of a Spatial History Stuart Elden. Acknowledgements. This book is based in large part on ... Heidegger's Questioning the Political, Political Geography, Vol. 19 No. 4, May 2000; and Reading Genealogy as ...
Heidegger, Foucault and the Project of a Spatial History Stuart Elden. Acknowledgements. This book is based in large part on ... Heidegger's Questioning the Political, Political Geography, Vol. 19 No. 4, May 2000; and Reading Genealogy as ...
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... Heidegger, and Heidegger's reading of Nietzsche. This is, of course, closer to what Foucault – in the remarks above – actually said.6 Foucault read Heidegger in the original German,7 and we can therefore be sure that in the early 1950s ...
... Heidegger, and Heidegger's reading of Nietzsche. This is, of course, closer to what Foucault – in the remarks above – actually said.6 Foucault read Heidegger in the original German,7 and we can therefore be sure that in the early 1950s ...
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... Heidegger, and particularly Heidegger's book Nietzsche. The general point being made is that, although Nietzsche's influence on Foucault is of great importance, there are a number of central issues in Foucault's work that cannot be ...
... Heidegger, and particularly Heidegger's book Nietzsche. The general point being made is that, although Nietzsche's influence on Foucault is of great importance, there are a number of central issues in Foucault's work that cannot be ...
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... Heidegger's philosophy. Rather than separate the man from the thought or merely dismiss him as a thinker, moves that have tended to dog discussions of Heidegger's Nazism, I follow a number of recent studies in examining the importance ...
... Heidegger's philosophy. Rather than separate the man from the thought or merely dismiss him as a thinker, moves that have tended to dog discussions of Heidegger's Nazism, I follow a number of recent studies in examining the importance ...
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... Heidegger's part, has always caused difficulties in understanding its importance and situating its insights. With the publication of Heidegger's lecture courses in the Gesamtausgabe and the coming to light of some other pieces several ...
... Heidegger's part, has always caused difficulties in understanding its importance and situating its insights. With the publication of Heidegger's lecture courses in the Gesamtausgabe and the coming to light of some other pieces several ...
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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