Place, space and hermeneutics / Bruce B. Janz, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Janz, Bruce B., 1960- editor.

Series:

Contributions to hermeneutics ; 2509-6087 5.

Contributions to Hermeneutics, 2509-6087 ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Phenomenology.

Sociology.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 531 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017]

Summary:

This book analyzes the hermeneutics of place, raising questions about central issues such as textuality, dialogue, and play. It discusses the central figures in the development of hermeneutics and place, and surveys disciplines and areas in which a hermeneutic approach to place has been fruitful. It covers the range of philosophical hermeneutic theory, both within philosophy itself as well as from other disciplines. In doing so, the volume reflects the state of theorization on these issues, and also looks forward to the implications and opportunities that exist. Philosophical hermeneutics has fundamentally altered philosophy's approach to place. Issues such as how we dwell in place, how place is imagined, created, preserved, and lost, and how philosophy itself exists in place have become central. While there is much research applying hermeneutics to place, there is little which both reflects on that heritage and critically analyzes a hermeneutic approach to place. This book fills that void by offering a sustained analysis of the central elements, major figures, and disciplinary applications of hermeneutics and place.

Contents:

1. Introduction

Part 1: Elements of Hermeneutics, Place, and Space

2. Understanding Place

3. Is Place a Text?

4. Narrative and Place

5. An Eco-Echo-Philopoetics of Dialog and Place: Why and When Should Language Alert and Alter Itself?

6. Suspended in Mid-Air: Casting Nets and Making Places Between Earth and Sky at Meteora

7. Action-Space and Time: Towards an Enactive Hermeneutics

8. Hermeneutics of Play

Hermeneutics of Place: On Play, Style, and Dream

9. A Hermeneutics of the Body in Health and Illness

10. Place and Non-Place: A Phenomenological Perspective

11. Topos Unbound: From Place to Opening and Back

12. The Configuration of Space through Architecture in the Thinking of Gadamer

13. Space and Narrative: Ricoeur and a Hermeneutic Reading of Place

14. Gaston Bachelard's Places of the Imagination and Images of Space

15. Merleau-Ponty's Hermeneutic Reflections on Certainty and Place: Science and Art

16. Hannah Arendt's Multi-Perspectivism and the Tension Between Place and Space

17. Lefebvre, Hermeneutics and Place

18. Discourse, Power, and Place: Foucault's Epistemic Position

19. A Place for James J. Gibson

20. Tuanian Geography

21. Edward Casey: Subliminal Hermeneutics in the Wake of Place

22. Jeff Malpas: The Tireless Attentive Explorer of Place, Situation and Boundary

Part 2 Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Spaces of the Hermeneutic of Place and Space

23. Towards Topopoetics: Space Place and the Poem

24. When the "Here and Now" is Nowhere

25. Hermeneutics and Architecture: Buildings-in-Themselves and Interpretive Trustworthiness

26. The Mental Life of the Metropolis

27. The Hermeneutics of the Urban Spatial Sociologies of Simmel, Benjamin and Lefebvre

28. Toward an Anthropological Understanding of Space and Place

29. Hermeneutics of Place and Space: A Geographical Perspective

30. Hermeneutics, Place and Environment

31. Psychology and Lived Space: Woodland Paths and the Pathic

32. Being on the Edge: Body, Place, Climate

33. Digital Virtual Places: Utopias, Atopias, Heterotopias

34. A Woman's Place: Place-Based Theory, Hermeneutics, and Feminism

35. Race as a Historico-Spatial Construct: The Hermeneutical Challenge to Institutional Racism

36. Inattentiveness to Place: The Case of South African Philosophy

37. Thinking Across Cultures: Western Hermeneutics and Chinese Exegesis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783319522128

3319522124

OCLC:

965808051