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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... fundamental level, however, the apparent neglect of place in Heidegger's work undoubtedly reflects the more general neglect of place that Casey brings to our attention and so the relative lack of analytical attention that has hitherto ...
... fundamentally topological character and orientation of that thought. One of the reasons for Heidegger's significance to place-oriented thinking is thus the way in which his work can be seen as just such an “unearthing” or “working out ...
... fundamental question of philosophical inquiry. As I noted in discussing van Buren above, my claim is that the question of being already implies (“unfolds into”) the question of place, and it is worth setting out, if only in summary form ...
... fundamental happening that is the happening of presence or disclosedness—the happening of world—as such. It is this happening that turns out to be at the very heart of Heidegger's “question of being.” This “happening” is not some ...
... fundamental unity and consistency to Heidegger's thinking as such, it is a consistency that is fully compatible with the character of that thinking as exhibiting certain breaks, shifts, misunderstandings, and even certain ...
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 |