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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... Interpretation von Kants Kritik der reinen Vernunft, 1977. Translated by Parvis Emad and Kenneth Maly as Phenomenological Interpretation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. Metaphysische ...
... Interpretation von Kants Kritik der reinen Vernunft, 1977. Translated by Parvis Emad and Kenneth Maly as Phenomenological Interpretation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. Metaphysische ...
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... interpretation of Foucault. Why is 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 ...
... interpretation of Foucault. Why is 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 ...
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... interpretations to be re-placed, in the light of the argument developed in the previous chapters. In both histories we see the relation between conceptualizations of space and their practical applications; how space and time work ...
... interpretations to be re-placed, in the light of the argument developed in the previous chapters. In both histories we see the relation between conceptualizations of space and their practical applications; how space and time work ...
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... ' as received in the present covers over the past. This notion of de-struction is therefore far from negative: it is an uncovering, a de-structuring, an archaeology of the levels of interpretation, the Mapping the Present 12.
... ' as received in the present covers over the past. This notion of de-struction is therefore far from negative: it is an uncovering, a de-structuring, an archaeology of the levels of interpretation, the Mapping the Present 12.
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... interpretation, the layers of sedimentation of the tradition that have obscured the issues at stake, the matters themselves.16 This ties back into the project of the first two divisions of Being and Time: Dasein temporalises itself in ...
... interpretation, the layers of sedimentation of the tradition that have obscured the issues at stake, the matters themselves.16 This ties back into the project of the first two divisions of Being and Time: Dasein temporalises itself in ...
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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