Heidegger's Topology: Being, Place, WorldThis groundbreaking inquiry into the centrality of place in Martin Heidegger's thinking offers not only an illuminating reading of Heidegger's thought but a detailed investigation into the way in which the concept of place relates to core philosophical issues. In Heidegger's Topology, Jeff Malpas argues that an engagement with place, explicit in Heidegger's later work, informs Heidegger's thought as a whole. What guides Heidegger's thinking, Malpas writes, is a conception of philosophy's starting point: our finding ourselves already "there," situated in the world, in "place". Heidegger's concepts of being and place, he argues, are inextricably bound together. Malpas follows the development of Heidegger's topology through three stages: the early period of the 1910s and 1920s, through Being and Time, centered on the "meaning of being"; the middle period of the 1930s into the 1940s, centered on the "truth of being"; and the late period from the mid-1940s on, when the "place of being" comes to the fore. (Malpas also challenges the widely repeated arguments that link Heidegger's notions of place and belonging to his entanglement with Nazism.) The significance of Heidegger as a thinker of place, Malpas claims, lies not only in Heidegger's own investigations but also in the way that spatial and topographic thinking has flowed from Heidegger's work into that of other key thinkers of the past 60 years. |
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... Dasein in the sense of a site of being.”17 There is much in van Buren's work, then, as well as in that of Theodore Kisiel on which van Buren often draws, that is important for filling out the place-oriented character even of Heidegger's ...
... Thus in Being and Time, as we shall see, there is a notion of space that is directly involved with the character of Dasein (being-there) as “being-in-the-world.” Place is, as I noted above, a problematic concept in 28 Chapter 1.
... Dasein” (which I will translate as “being there” and with respect to which I shall have more to say in chapter 2 below, see sec. 2.2), “Welt” (world), “Umwelt” (environment, environing world), and “Situation” or “Lage” (both of which ...
... Dasein,” and so on. Thomas Sheehan suggests that one of the problems of contemporary Heidegger scholarship is that there is no clear understanding of what such terms mean.95 I agree with some of Sheehan's concerns here, notably the way ...
... Dasein” and concludes with the sentence “Then Dasein would be: being questioning.”9 42 Chapter 2.
Contents
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Meaning and Temporality | 65 |
Truth and World | 147 |
Place and Event | 211 |
Returning to Place | 305 |
Notes | 317 |
Select Bibliography | 389 |
Index | 405 |