By Edward Casey

During this inventive and entire examine, Edward Casey, the most incisive interpreters of the Continental philosophical culture, bargains a philosophical background of the evolving conceptualizations of position and area in Western concept. now not only a presentation of the guidelines of alternative philosophers, The destiny of position is acutely delicate to silences, absences, and neglected possibilities within the advanced historical past of philosophical methods to area and position. A important subject is the expanding forget of position in want of house from the 7th century A.D. onward, amounting to the digital exclusion of position by means of the tip of the eighteenth century.

Casey starts with mythological and non secular construction tales and the theories of Plato and Aristotle after which explores the history of Neoplatonic, medieval, and Renaissance speculations approximately area. He offers a magnificent background of the start of contemporary spatial conceptions within the writings of Newton, Descartes, Leibniz, and Kant and delineates the evolution of twentieth-century phenomenological techniques within the paintings of Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Bachelard, and Heidegger. within the book's ultimate part, Casey explores the postmodern theories of Foucault, Derrida, Tschumi, Deleuze and Guattari, and Irigaray.

"Edward Casey has written an excellent, dependent, and meticulously thorough research of the 'hidden historical past of place' . . . destined to turn into the traditional reference for all these attracted to rethinking area, position, situation, and containment."—Elizabeth Grosz, writer of unstable our bodies: towards a Corporeal Feminism

"The challenge of 'place' and 'space' is a vital one and its lineage in western philosophy hasn't ever been traced with such commanding readability as in Edward Casey's paintings. Encyclopedic in variety, it's also a wonderfully informative ebook, packed with insights and surprises."—Anders Stephanson, Columbia University

"[This book's] ancient scope is breathtaking; its old scholarship is prodigious."—David M. Levin, editor of Modernity and the Hegemony of Vision

"Focusing at the physique as a path to recuperating a feeling of position . . . this booklet permits us to 'join' the intended poles of realism and idealism, objectivity and subjectivity, sociality and individuality. students will locate Casey's paintings hugely stimulating and groundbreaking in lots of ways."—Lawrence Hatab, writer of delusion and Philosophy