Edward S. Casey

Getting Back Into Place

Toward a Renewed Understanding of the Place-World

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Produktbeschreibung

Enlarged edition of a classic work on the significance of place

Produktdetails

• Studies in Continental Thought
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Second Edition
• Seitenzahl: 510
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 774g
• ISBN-13: 9780253220882
• ISBN-10: 0253220882
• Artikelnr.: 25682981

Autorenporträt

Edward S. Casey is Distinguished Professor at Stony Brook University. His previous books include Imagining (IUP, 2nd ed., 2000), Remembering (IUP, 2nd ed., 2000), and The World at a Glance (IUP, 2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Being before Place
Acknowledgments
Introduction to the Second Edition
Part 1. Finding Place
1. Implacement
2. Displacement
Part 2. The Body in Place
3. Directions
4. Dimensions
Part 3. Built Places
5. Two Ways to Dwell
6. Building Sites and Cultivating Places
Part 4. Wild Places
7. The Arc of Desolation and the Array of Description
8. Going Wild in the Land
Part 5. Moving Between Places
9. Homeward Bound: Ending (in) the Journey
Epilogue. New Work on Place: Space, Time, and History
How to Get from Space to Place in a Fairly Short Stretch of Time
Smooth Spaces and Rough-Edged Places: The Hidden History of Place
Notes
Index