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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... simple and immediate grasp of being in our own “being-in” the open-ness of place. In this respect, what I offer here is a very specific “reading” of Heidegger, one that aims to understand him as responding to a particular problem or set ...
... simple location, or else mere “site.” The way in which place relates to space, time, and other concepts and the manner in which these concepts are configured has seldom been the object of detailed philosophical exploration. Although ...
... simple and unequivocal tool with which to analyze Heidegger's texts—indeed, this is one reason why I would rather say that there is one distinction here (between presence and what presences) that plays out in at least two ways (in terms ...
... simple “standing there” of the thing independently of all else, but is, indeed, a matter of coming into related- ness with things in their sameness and difference, in their unity and multiplicity.37 This coming into presence is what ...
... simple,' and 'remaining' place, the common place where every being is 'as' it is.”41 The path along which Heidegger's thought moves is a path that constantly turns back toward this place, and in which the place-bound direction of that ...
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 |