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 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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