Mapping the Present : Heidegger, Foucault and the Project of a Spatial History
In 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
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Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter One: Space and History in Being and Time
Ontology, History and Time
The Space of Dasein and Equipment
Reading Kant Phenomenologically
Towards Hölderlin and Nietzsche
Chapter Two: In the Shadow of Nazism: Reading Hölderlin and Nietzsche
Einführung: Introduction
I: Hölderlin
The Germania and Rhine Hymns
The Ister Hymn
II: Nietzsche
Returning to the Augenblick
Space and the Body
Excursus: The Beiträge
Power and Perspectivism
Chapter Three: Art, Technology, Place and the Political. The Origin of the Work of Art
Re-thinking the S"on
The Question of Technology
Dwelling Poetically at the Place of the Fourfold
Platial Descriptions
Art 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 Correction
Observing and Classifying
The Birth of Moral Imprisonment
II: Not Through Bentham's Eyes
A Torturous Sediment. The Army, Schools, Monasteries, Factories
The Spaces of Medicine
The Panopticon and Panopticism
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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