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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... concern [souci] of the self, to examine the related understanding of freedom, and to see how Heidegger's reading of Greek thought relates to Foucault's readings of antiquity.11 However, this book is concerned with the relation between ...
... concern [souci] of the self, to examine the related understanding of freedom, and to see how Heidegger's reading of Greek thought relates to Foucault's readings of antiquity.11 However, this book is concerned with the relation between ...
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... concerns, and allows us insight into how space has been used politically in relation to the mad, showing the exclusion, ordering, moralization and confinement that were brought to bear on their situation. The second history is ...
... concerns, and allows us insight into how space has been used politically in relation to the mad, showing the exclusion, ordering, moralization and confinement that were brought to bear on their situation. The second history is ...
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... Spatiality, which is saturated in a factical manner with concern, has its distances – it is there as: too far, nearby, through this street, through the kitchen, a stone's throw, behind the cathedral, and the like. Mapping the Present 20.
... Spatiality, which is saturated in a factical manner with concern, has its distances – it is there as: too far, nearby, through this street, through the kitchen, a stone's throw, behind the cathedral, and the like. Mapping the Present 20.
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... concern. (GA63, 101) Heidegger also extends his consideration to nature, a point he will return to in his later work on technology: Nature is not to be understood as that which is just present-at-hand, nor as the power of nature. The ...
... concern. (GA63, 101) Heidegger also extends his consideration to nature, a point he will return to in his later work on technology: Nature is not to be understood as that which is just present-at-hand, nor as the power of nature. The ...
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... concerns being rather than beings, and is the major concern of the early Heidegger, especially in Being and Time. The predominant strain of Kant interpretation in Heidegger's time was the neo-Kantianism of the Marburg school, which ...
... concerns being rather than beings, and is the major concern of the early Heidegger, especially in Being and Time. The predominant strain of Kant interpretation in Heidegger's time was the neo-Kantianism of the Marburg school, which ...
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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