Heidegger's Topology
Being, Place, World
- Paperback
424 pages
- Release Date
29 August 2008
Summary
This 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 star…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262633680 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 026263368X |
| Author: | Jeff Malpas |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | Bradford Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 424 |
| Release Date: | 29 August 2008 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 21mm |
| Series: | A Bradford Book |
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Critics Review
Malpas’s work opens up new ways to read Heidegger (considered for too long the philosopher of time) by underscoring the centrality of place and its many implications for understanding our world, our environment, and ourselves.
—John Panteleimon Manoussakis, Journal of the History of PhilosophyAbout The Author
Jeff Malpas
Jeff Malpas is Distinguished Professor at the University of Tasmania and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Latrobe University. He is the author of Heidegger’s Topology- Being, Place, World and Heidegger and the Thinking of Place- Explorations in the Topology of Being, both published by the MIT Press.
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