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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... become a historical ontology. These changes may well have been apparent much earlier if Heidegger had published Division III of Part One and Part Two of Being and Time. On the issue of space, it is clear from Being and Time that ...
... become a historical ontology. These changes may well have been apparent much earlier if Heidegger had published Division III of Part One and Part Two of Being and Time. On the issue of space, it is clear from Being and Time that ...
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... becomes much clearer and more involved if the lecture courses published in the Gesamtausgabe since 1975 are taken into account. These lecture courses shed particular light on Heidegger's readings of Kant, Aristotle and Ho ̈lderlin. The ...
... becomes much clearer and more involved if the lecture courses published in the Gesamtausgabe since 1975 are taken into account. These lecture courses shed particular light on Heidegger's readings of Kant, Aristotle and Ho ̈lderlin. The ...
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... become much clearer – and therefore more useful – if viewed through a Heideggerian lens. In this reading, the notion of genealogy is recast as a historical ontology, which is framed as a critique of the present. In Foucault's work, this ...
... become much clearer – and therefore more useful – if viewed through a Heideggerian lens. In this reading, the notion of genealogy is recast as a historical ontology, which is framed as a critique of the present. In Foucault's work, this ...
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... becomes another term to be examined historically. Rather, we need to spatialize history, to inject an awareness of space into all historical studies, to critically examine the power relations at play in the ways space is effected and ...
... becomes another term to be examined historically. Rather, we need to spatialize history, to inject an awareness of space into all historical studies, to critically examine the power relations at play in the ways space is effected and ...
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... become much clearer. At the same time a number of complications arise: some because they require the rethinking of Heidegger's thought; some because of the problematic nature of this edition itself.1 The lecture courses develop material ...
... become much clearer. At the same time a number of complications arise: some because they require the rethinking of Heidegger's thought; some because of the problematic nature of this edition itself.1 The lecture courses develop material ...
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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Mapping the Present: Heidegger, Foucault and the Project of a Spatial History Stuart Elden No preview available - 2001 |
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