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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... remarks such as these: Nietzsche, not Heidegger, defines the horizon from which Foucault most often takes his departure. Heidegger's influence is apparent throughout Foucault's writing, but it is found in a more Nietzschean context.4 ...
... remarks such as these: Nietzsche, not Heidegger, defines the horizon from which Foucault most often takes his departure. Heidegger's influence is apparent throughout Foucault's writing, but it is found in a more Nietzschean context.4 ...
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... remarks in Being and Time are generally limited to the historicality of Dasein, at times he does hint at the direction of his thought to come. Dreyfus has suggested that the sketchy and hurried nature of Division Two should be ...
... remarks in Being and Time are generally limited to the historicality of Dasein, at times he does hint at the direction of his thought to come. Dreyfus has suggested that the sketchy and hurried nature of Division Two should be ...
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... remarks on this point. In 1928 he tells his students that when some years ago I studied the Critique of Pure Reason anew and read it, as it were, against the background of Husserl's phenomenology, the scales fell from my eyes; and Kant ...
... remarks on this point. In 1928 he tells his students that when some years ago I studied the Critique of Pure Reason anew and read it, as it were, against the background of Husserl's phenomenology, the scales fell from my eyes; and Kant ...
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... remark Heidegger made in The Basic Problems of Phenomenology: 'perhaps it is precisely time which is the a priori of the I [Ich] – time, to be sure, in a more original sense than Kant was able to conceive it' (GA24, 206).49 In the ...
... remark Heidegger made in The Basic Problems of Phenomenology: 'perhaps it is precisely time which is the a priori of the I [Ich] – time, to be sure, in a more original sense than Kant was able to conceive it' (GA24, 206).49 In the ...
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... remark.8 If one thing counts more against Heidegger than his actions 1933–4, it is his lies, evasions and reworkings of his own history after that date. In An Introduction to Metaphysics there is the first clearly evident use of the ...
... remark.8 If one thing counts more against Heidegger than his actions 1933–4, it is his lies, evasions and reworkings of his own history after that date. In An Introduction to Metaphysics there is the first clearly evident use of the ...
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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