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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Page 19
... objects.' When we enter here through the door, we do not apprehend the seats, and the same holds for the door-knob. Nevertheless, they are there in this peculiar way: we go by them circumspectly, avoid them circumspectly, stumble ...
... objects.' When we enter here through the door, we do not apprehend the seats, and the same holds for the door-knob. Nevertheless, they are there in this peculiar way: we go by them circumspectly, avoid them circumspectly, stumble ...
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... objects, objects must conform to our knowledge (GA25, 55–6).40 What was for Kant the examination of the transcendental possibility of experience, becomes in Heidegger's terms an examination of the ontological possibility of the ontic ...
... objects, objects must conform to our knowledge (GA25, 55–6).40 What was for Kant the examination of the transcendental possibility of experience, becomes in Heidegger's terms an examination of the ontological possibility of the ontic ...
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... objects we perceive must conform. Space and time are the horizon within which we encounter all things: experience must take a spatio-temporal form. Heidegger explains the implications of this by suggesting that the employment of space ...
... objects we perceive must conform. Space and time are the horizon within which we encounter all things: experience must take a spatio-temporal form. Heidegger explains the implications of this by suggesting that the employment of space ...
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... objects in an immediate sense, but when represented to us, they become temporal in a mediated way. Because then both the external world and the internal world are dependent on the temporality of the perceiver, time is the formal ...
... objects in an immediate sense, but when represented to us, they become temporal in a mediated way. Because then both the external world and the internal world are dependent on the temporality of the perceiver, time is the formal ...
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... objects; for Heidegger temporality is the basic constitution of Dasein and therefore spatiality is founded upon it. Heidegger claims that this does not mean that space is deduced from, or dissolved into, time (GA2, 367). Whilst this is ...
... objects; for Heidegger temporality is the basic constitution of Dasein and therefore spatiality is founded upon it. Heidegger claims that this does not mean that space is deduced from, or dissolved into, time (GA2, 367). Whilst this is ...
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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