The Memory of Place - A Phenomenology of the Uncanny

Informationen zum Autor Dylan Trigg is a postdoctoral research fellow at University College Dublin, School of Philosophy. He is also a visiting researcher at Les Archives Husserl, École Normale Supérieure, Paris. He is the author of The Aesthetics of Decay and has published widely on phenomenology, continental philosophy, and aesthetics. He lives in Dublin and Paris. Klappentext From the frozen landscapes of the Antarctic to the haunted houses of childhood, the memory of places we experience is fundamental to a sense of self. Drawing on influences as diverse as Merleau-Ponty, Freud, and J. G. Ballard, The Memory of Place charts the memorial landscape that is written into the body and its experience of the world. Zusammenfassung From the frozen landscapes of the Antarctic to the haunted houses of childhood! the memory of places we experience is fundamental to a sense of self. Drawing on influences as diverse as Merleau-Ponty! Freud! and J. G. Ballard! The Memory of Place charts the memorial landscape that is written into the body and its experience of the world.

Product details

• Authors: Dylan Trigg
• Publisher: University of ohio press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2013
• EAN: 9780821420393
• ISBN: 978-0-8214-2039-3
• No. of pages: 386
• Series: Series in Continental Thought; Series in Continental Thought
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day