Heidegger's Topology: Being, Place, World by Jeff Malpas (English) Paperback Boo

Description: Heidegger's Topology by Jeff Malpas A groundbreaking argument that the concept of place is central to Heideggers thinking--and at the heart of all philosophical inquiry. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This groundbreaking inquiry into the centrality of place in Martin Heideggers thinking offers not only an illuminating reading of Heideggers thought but a detailed investigation into the way in which the concept of place relates to core philosophical issues. In Heideggers Topology, Jeff Malpas argues that an engagement with place, explicit in Heideggers later work, informs Heideggers thought as a whole. What guides Heideggers thinking, Malpas writes, is a conception of philosophys starting point- our finding ourselves already "there," situated in the world, in "place". Heideggers concepts of being and place, he argues, are inextricably bound together.Malpas follows the development of Heideggers 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 Heideggers 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 Heideggers own investigations but also in the way that spatial and topographic thinking has flowed from Heideggers work into that of other key thinkers of the past 60 years. Notes "In Heideggers Topology, Malpas argues convincingly that, throughout Heideggers fifty-three-year philosophical career, his central focus was realizing more and more profoundly that human being is always and already human being situated in place. He effectively demonstrates how this emplacement became, for Heidegger, the central answer to the question of how anything, including human being, can exist and be the thing it is. In carefully explicating the shifting conceptual meaning of place and emplacement in Heideggers writings, Malpas provides an important philosophical addition to the growing body of academic and applied research in place studies."--David Seamon, Department of Architecture, Kansas State University, and editor, *Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology* "What marks the possibility of a genuine philosophical adventure is when a body of work is illuminated in ways that are not simply original but also generative of new work. Such would be a description of Malpas approach to Heidegger. Putting to one side the usual pieties that surround Heideggers work and giving priority to topology and place, Malpas will make any reader of Heidegger think again. What emerges is a Heidegger whose work forms an integral part of a philosophical geography. As such, terms such as life, mortality and the environment--words with a real exigency--come to acquire genuine philosophical force. This is a book that combines a passionate commitment to scholarship with an insistence on demonstrating the relevance of philosophy in a dramatically new way."--Andrew Benjamin, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology, Sydney Author Biography Jeff Malpas is Distinguished Professor at the University of Tasmania and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Latrobe University. He is the author of Heideggers Topology- Being, Place, World and Heidegger and the Thinking of Place- Explorations in the Topology of Being, both published by the MIT Press. Review Malpass 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 Philosophy Promotional In Heideggers Topology, Malpas argues convincingly that, throughout Heideggers fifty-three-year philosophical career, his central focus was realizing more and more profoundly that human being is always and already human being situated in place. He effectively demonstrates how this emplacement became, for Heidegger, the central answer to the question of how anything, including human being, can exist and be the thing it is. In carefully explicating the shifting conceptual meaning of place and emplacement in Heideggers writings, Malpas provides an important philosophical addition to the growing body of academic and applied research in place studies. -- David Seamon, Department of Architecture, Kansas State University, and editor, Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology This is a brilliant book that will change the entire field of Heidegger studies. It makes a deeply cogent and extremely eloquent case for regarding place as the underlying thread of Heideggers entire philosophical development, while at the same time advancing the argument for considering place to be a sine qua non in philosophical analysis more generally. -- Edward S. Casey, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Stony Brook University What marks the possibility of a genuine philosophical adventure is when a body of work is illuminated in ways that are not simply original but also generative of new work. Such would be a description of Malpas approach to Heidegger. Putting to one side the usual pieties that surround Heideggers work and giving priority to topology and place, Malpas will make any reader of Heidegger think again. What emerges is a Heidegger whose work forms an integral part of a philosophical geography. As such, terms such as life, mortality and the environment -- words with a real exigency -- come to acquire genuine philosophical force. This is a book that combines a passionate commitment to scholarship with an insistence on demonstrating the relevance of philosophy in a dramatically new way. -- Andrew Benjamin,, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology, Sydney Long Description Leo Strausss connection with Martin Heidegger and Carl Schmitt suggests a troubling proximity to National Socialism but a serious critique of Strauss must begin with F. H. Jacobi. While writing his dissertation on this apparently Christian opponent of the Enlightenment, Strauss discovered the tactical principles that would characterize his lifework: writing between the lines, a faith-based critique of rationalism, the deliberate secularization of religious language for irreligious purposes, and an "all or nothing" antagonism to middling solutions. Especially the latter is distinctive of his Zionist writings in the 1920s where Strauss engaged in an ongoing polemic against Cultural Zionism, attacking it first from an orthodox, and then from an atheists perspective. In his last Zionist article (1929), Strauss mentions "the Machiavellian Zionism of a Nordau that would not fear to use the traditional hope for a Messiah as dynamite." By the time of his "change of orientation," National Socialism was being led by a nihilistic "Messiah" while Strauss had already radicalized Schmitts "political theology" and Heideggers deconstruction of the ontological Tradition. Central to Strausss advance beyond the smartest Nazis is his "Second Cave" in which he claimed modern thought is imprisoned: only by escaping Revelation can we recover "natural ignorance." By using pseudo-Platonic imagery to illustrate what anti-Semites called "Jewification," Strauss attempted to annihilate the common ground, celebrated by Hermann Cohen, between Judaism and Platonism. Unlike those who attacked Plato for devaluing nature at the expense of the transcendent Idea, the migr Strauss effectively employed a new "Plato" who was no more a Platonist than Nietzsche or Heidegger had been. Central to Strausss "Platonic political philosophy" is the mysterious protagonist of Platos Laws whom Strauss accurately recognized as the kind of Socrates whose fear of death would have caused him to flee the hemlock. Any reader who recognizes the unbridgeable gap between the real Socrates and Platos Athenian Stranger will understand why "the German Stranger" is the principal theoretician of an atheistic re-enactment of religion, of which genus National Socialism is an ultra-modern species. Review Text "What marks the possibility of a genuine philosophical adventure is when a body of work is illuminated in ways that are not simply original but also generative of new work. Such would be a description of Malpass approach to Heidegger. Putting to one side the usual pieties that surround Heideggers work and giving priority to topology and place, Malpas will make any reader of Heidegger think again. What emerges is a Heidegger whose work forms an integral part of a philosophical geography. As such, terms such as life. mortality, and the environment-words with a real exigency-come to acquire genuine philosophical force. This is a book that combines a passionate commitment to scholarship with an insistence on demonstrating the relevance of philosophy in a dramatically new way." -Andrew Benjamin, Professor of Critical Theory in Design and Architecture, University of Technology, Sydney Review Quote "Malpass work opens up new ways to read Heidegger (considered for too long thephilosopher of time) by underscoring the centrality of place and its many implications forunderstanding our world, our environment, and ourselves." John Panteleimon Manoussakis Journal ofthe History of Philosophy Promotional "Headline" "Malpass 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 Philosophy Details ISBN026263368X Author Jeff Malpas Short Title HEIDEGGERS TOPOLOGY Language English ISBN-10 026263368X ISBN-13 9780262633680 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2008 Subtitle Being, Place, World Country of Publication United States Residence Tasmania, AT Imprint Bradford Books Place of Publication Massachusetts Audience Age 18 Affiliation University of Tasmania Series A Bradford Book DOI 10.1604/9780262633680 UK Release Date 2008-08-29 AU Release Date 2008-08-29 NZ Release Date 2008-08-29 US Release Date 2008-08-29 Pages 424 Publisher MIT Press Ltd Publication Date 2008-08-29 Alternative 9780262134705 DEWEY 193 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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