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In this imaginative and comprehensive study, Edward Casey, one of
the most incisive interpreters of the Continental philosophical
tradition, offers a philosophical history of the evolving
conceptualizations of place and space in Western thought. Not
merely a presentation of the ideas of other philosophers, "The Fate
of Place" is acutely sensitive to silences, absences, and missed
opportunities in the complex history of philosophical approaches to
space and place. A central theme is the increasing neglect of place
in favor of space from the seventh century A.D. onward, amounting
to the virtual exclusion of place by the end of the eighteenth
century. Casey begins with mythological and religious creation
stories and the theories of Plato and Aristotle and then explores
the heritage of Neoplatonic, medieval, and Renaissance speculations
about space. He presents an impressive history of the birth of
modern spatial conceptions in the writings of Newton, Descartes,
Leibniz, and Kant and delineates the evolution of twentieth-century
phenomenological approaches in the work of Husserl, Merleau-Ponty,
Bachelard, and Heidegger. In the book's final section, Casey
explores the postmodern theories of Foucault, Derrida, Tschumi,
Deleuze and Guattari, and Irigaray.
A celebration of renowned sculptor and educator Kent Bloomer's
work, examining the role of ornament in contemporary architecture
and society Best known for New York's Central Park luminaires
(1982), the ornamentation at Rice University's Baker Hall in
Houston (1997), and his work on Yale University's Bass Library
entrance pavilion and Sterling Memorial Library stairwell entrance
(2007), the sculptor Kent Bloomer (b. 1935) has not only influenced
the discussion around ornament in contemporary architectural
practice, but has inspired developments in a range of disciplines
that include history, music, art, philosophy, and biology. With a
retrospective look at Bloomer's work as a point of departure,
scholars from a variety of different fields explore his
contributions to the history of ornament as both a social and an
artistic phenomenon. Through the lens of Bloomer's groundbreaking
oeuvre, this volume reorients the discourse of ornament from a
contentious vestige of modernity toward its active relationship to
architecture, landscape, urbanism, and a sense of place.
Encounters with Alphonso Lingis is the first extensive study of
this American philosopher who is gaining an international
reputation to augment his national one. Lingis's books have already
been translated into nearly a dozen languages, and writers from
many disciplines are finding his works a source for fresh
philosophical and scholarly inquiries. The distinguished
contributors to this volume reflect on their own encounters with
this unique American thinker as they engage his work from their
various critical perspectives. They address most of the central
themes found in his writings including singularity and otherness,
death and eroticism, emotions and rationality, embodiment and the
face, excess and the sacred. In the book's first section, the
contributors discuss Lingis's significance as a contemporary
philosopher, particularly with regard to such renowned figures as
Dante, Kant, Nietzsche, Foucault, and the major existential and
phenomenological thinkers of the past century. In the second
section, they focus on Lingis's ideas as the basis for inquiries
into additional fields, such as art, literature, cultural studies,
and politics. The book closes with a new essay by Lingis himself."
Encounters with Alphonso Lingis is the first extensive study of
this American philosopher who is gaining an international
reputation to augment his national one. Lingis's books have already
been translated into nearly a dozen languages, and writers from
many disciplines are finding his works a source for fresh
philosophical and scholarly inquiries. The distinguished
contributors to this volume reflect on their own encounters with
this unique American thinker as they engage his work from their
various critical perspectives. They address most of the central
themes found in his writings including singularity and otherness,
death and eroticism, emotions and rationality, embodiment and the
face, excess and the sacred. In the book's first section, the
contributors discuss Lingis's significance as a contemporary
philosopher, particularly with regard to such renowned figures as
Dante, Kant, Nietzsche, Foucault, and the major existential and
phenomenological thinkers of the past century. In the second
section, they focus on Lingis's ideas as the basis for inquiries
into additional fields, such as art, literature, cultural studies,
and politics. The book closes with a new essay by Lingis himself."
Edward Casey, an underfed, under-sized and semi-literate Irish
Cockney from Canning Town, was no war hero. Even so, his account of
four years of war service with the Royal Dublin Fusiliers is a
remarkable chronicle, revealing his personal and sexual
insecurities, his remarkable experience of Irish unrest during
periods of training and leave, and his excitement as a military
tourist in France, Salonica and Malta.The memoir was written in
1980, six decades after his departure for New Zealand, yet retains
a strong Cockney flavor. The editor has selected the chapters with
the greatest interest for Irish readers, placing Casey 's story in
the broader context of the Great War and its sometimes devastating
psychological consequences.
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