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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... Space and time. I. Title. B3279.H49 E395 2001 193—dc21 2001018896 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical ...
... Space and time. I. Title. B3279.H49 E395 2001 193—dc21 2001018896 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical ...
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... Space and History in Being and Time 8 Ontology, History and Time 8 The Space of Dasein and Equipment Reading Kant Phenomenologically Towards Ho ̈lderlin and Nietzsche Chapter Two: In the Shadow of Nazism: Reading Ho ̈lderlin and ...
... Space and History in Being and Time 8 Ontology, History and Time 8 The Space of Dasein and Equipment Reading Kant Phenomenologically Towards Ho ̈lderlin and Nietzsche Chapter Two: In the Shadow of Nazism: Reading Ho ̈lderlin and ...
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... Space Chapter Four: Towards a Spatial History I: A History of Limits Archaeology Genealogy II: Mapping the Present Chapter Five: The Spaces of Power I: Re-placing Madness and Civilisation Leprosy, Water and Madness Confinement and ...
... Space Chapter Four: Towards a Spatial History I: A History of Limits Archaeology Genealogy II: Mapping the Present Chapter Five: The Spaces of Power I: Re-placing Madness and Civilisation Leprosy, Water and Madness Confinement and ...
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... space.12 There are, for me, two principal problems with these attempts. One of these is that any theorist who talks of space is unproblematically appropriated as 'one of them', which conflates the work of thinkers whose understandings of ...
... space.12 There are, for me, two principal problems with these attempts. One of these is that any theorist who talks of space is unproblematically appropriated as 'one of them', which conflates the work of thinkers whose understandings of ...
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... space, and his use of a spatialized history, is indebted not so much to his reading of Nietzsche but, most importantly, to his reading of Heidegger. But Heidegger is not simply of interest in order to show how his work informed and ...
... space, and his use of a spatialized history, is indebted not so much to his reading of Nietzsche but, most importantly, to his reading of Heidegger. But Heidegger is not simply of interest in order to show how his work informed and ...
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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