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The Memory of Place - A Phenomenology of the Uncanny (Paperback)
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The Memory of Place - A Phenomenology of the Uncanny (Paperback)
Series: Series in Continental Thought
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From the frozen landscapes of the Antarctic to the haunted houses
of childhood, the memory of places we experience is fundamental to
a sense of self. Drawing on influences as diverse as Merleau-Ponty,
Freud, and J. G. Ballard, The Memory of Place charts the memorial
landscape that is written into the body and its experience of the
world. Dylan Trigg's The Memory of Place offers a lively and
original intervention into contemporary debates within \u201cplace
studies,\u201d an interdisciplinary field at the intersection of
philosophy, geography, architecture, urban design, and
environmental studies. Through a series of provocative
investigations, Trigg analyzes monuments in the representation of
public memory; \u201ctransitional\u201d contexts, such as airports
and highway rest stops; and the \u201cruins\u201d of both memory
and place in sites such as Auschwitz. While developing these
original analyses, Trigg engages in thoughtful and innovative ways
with the philosophical and literary tradition, from Gaston
Bachelard to Pierre Nora, H. P. Lovecraft to Martin Heidegger.
Breathing a strange new life into phenomenology, The Memory of
Place argues that the eerie disquiet of the uncanny is at the core
of the remembering body, and thus of ourselves. The result is a
compelling and novel rethinking of memory and place that should
spark new conversations across the field of place studies. Edward
S. Casey, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook
University and widely recognized as the leading scholar on
phenomenology of place, calls The Memory of Place \u201cgenuinely
unique and a signal addition to phenomenological literature. It
fills a significant gap, and it does so with eloquence and
force.\u201d He predicts that Trigg's book will be
\u201cimmediately recognized as a major original work in
phenomenology.\u201d
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