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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! Ecole Normale Superieure! 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. Dylan Trigg's "The Memory of Place "offers a lively and original intervention into contemporary debates within "place studies!" an interdisciplinary field at the intersection of philosophy! geography! architecture! urban design! and environmental studies. "Trigg takes readers on a subtle and nuanced tour that will intrigue philosophers and psychologists as well as students and researchers involved with any of the disciplines that intersect as 'place studies' -- including architecture, geography, urban planning, and environmental studies."-- "Book News" 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.
