In the Brightness of Place (SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

The work of Jeff Malpas is well-known for its contribution to contemporary thinking about place and space. In the Brightness of Place takes that contribution further, as Malpas develops it in new ways and in relation to new topics. At the same time, the volume also develops Malpas' distinctively topological approach to the work of Martin Heidegger. Not limited simply to a reading of the topological in Heidegger, In the Brightness of Place also takes up the idea of topology after Heidegger, showing how topological thinking provides a way of rethinking Heidegger's own work and of rethinking our own being in the world. Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: In the Brightness of Place One Out of History to Topology Space, Place, and Time Place, Event, and History The Turn (Back) to Place The Difficulty of Place Two The “Anthropology” of the World Thinkers and Poets Here, in This Place In Proximity to Greece The World and the Human Three On Not Naturalizing Heidegger Nature and the Being of Dasein Nature and Romanticism Nature and the Transcendental Nature, Limit, and Place The “Naturalism” of Thinking Four Ontology and Hermeneutics Facticity and Hermeneutics Language, Place, and Hermeneutics Place and the Hermeneutical Five Language and Place Language and Dimensionality The Saying of Place Language as Topological The Spatiality of Language Six The Refusal of Metaphor Metaphysics and Metaphor Metaphor and Literality The Image and the Poetic Placing and Saying Seven Finding Ourselves in the World The “Combat” of Reason and Emotion Reason, Emotion, and the World Empirical and Ontological Approaches The Topology of the Emotions Emotion, Truth, and Thinking Eight Technology and Spatialization Modernity and the Critique of Technology Technology, Modernity, and Reason The Question of the “Essential” Space, Place, and Modernity Technology, Limit, and Failure Technology and Its Danger Nine From Extremity to Releasement Authenticity as Idea and Ideal Authenticity, Romanticism, and the Self Authenticity and Truthfulness Authenticity and Releasement Place, Releasement, and World Ten Where Are We When We Think? The “Placelessness” of Thinking Thinking as Something “Inner” Thinking and the “Moment” Temporality and the Topological Place, Space, and Natality The Place of Thinking Epilogue To the Other Beginning Heidegger’s Turnings The Relatedness of the Two Beginnings The Centrality of the Topological Hegel, Miller, and Relationality Topology and Hermeneutics Back into the Brightness of Place Notes Bibliography Index "Drawing on a range of sources in philosophy and literature, but with particular reference to the work of Heidegger, makes a compelling case for the importance of place in philosophical discourse"-- Provided by publisher