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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... Situation), in Interprétations Phénoménologiques d'Aristote, French-German edition, Mauvezin: Trans-Europ-Repress, 1992. Reference to manuscript pages. Q Questions, translated by various and including in the fourth volume the original ...
... Situation), in Interprétations Phénoménologiques d'Aristote, French-German edition, Mauvezin: Trans-Europ-Repress, 1992. Reference to manuscript pages. Q Questions, translated by various and including in the fourth volume the original ...
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... situation of the works used is often ignored. However practically valuable, useful and interesting these recent studies may have been, they are often worryingly conceptually weak. Second, although there has undoubtedly been a heavy bias ...
... situation of the works used is often ignored. However practically valuable, useful and interesting these recent studies may have been, they are often worryingly conceptually weak. Second, although there has undoubtedly been a heavy bias ...
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... situation. The second history is Discipline and Punish, the central text in a much wider project that encompasses The Birth of the Clinic and a number of shorter pieces, lectures and courses at the Colle`ge de France. Re-reading ...
... situation. The second history is Discipline and Punish, the central text in a much wider project that encompasses The Birth of the Clinic and a number of shorter pieces, lectures and courses at the Colle`ge de France. Re-reading ...
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... situation [Situation] which Heidegger defines thus: The existential attributes of any possible resolute Dasein include the items constitutive for an existential phenomenon which we call a situation . . . [in which] there is an overtone ...
... situation [Situation] which Heidegger defines thus: The existential attributes of any possible resolute Dasein include the items constitutive for an existential phenomenon which we call a situation . . . [in which] there is an overtone ...
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... The Hermeneutic of Facticity. Heidegger draws on the everyday situation of being in a room with a table. What is being encountered here? A thing in space – as a spatial thing, it Space and History in Being and Time 17.
... The Hermeneutic of Facticity. Heidegger draws on the everyday situation of being in a room with a table. What is being encountered here? A thing in space – as a spatial thing, it Space and History in Being and Time 17.
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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