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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... situatedness, and involvement16—even suggesting, at one point, that “in 1921 Heidegger already used the term 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 ...
... situatedness,” of philosophy and the place, the topos, of being as such. One might argue that mysticism places its emphasis on the need to retain a sense of the originary unity of that place and its essential ungroundedness in anything ...
... situatedness.” The task of this chapter is to explore the development of the topology that seems to be at issue here and that is therefore already evident in Heidegger's early thinking. In doing so, we will not only be exploring the ...
... situatedness, what does it mean for philosophy to be “situated”—for it to connect up with the philosopher's own life, or with her own “factic origin, milieu, life- contexts”? What it certainly cannot mean, in this context, is that ...
... situatedness—whether that of Heidegger or any other thinker—but instead the simple fact of worldly situatedness or placedness as such. It is this that, in every individual case, first calls us to philosophize, and that philosophy, at ...
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 |