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Zusatztext Topophilia! our love of place and our embeddedness in it and indebtedness to it! is not the only story to tell about place. In Topophobia ! Dylan Trigg brilliantly shows that topophobia is woven through our experience of place! from its most intimate to its most public. He is equal parts Virgil and J. G. Ballard: he is our guide into the anxious! uncanny! nausea-inducing! claustrophobic! and agoraphobic places we are seduced by and condemned to live in! and he is the one who puts into words that which haunts us.But this is not an account of the macabre! nor is it a tour of the bleak spaces of post-industrial collapse. Trigg gives us a rigorous phenomenology of the gaps and fissures of everyday place! the anxieties and ambiguities of being a body that must at some level be committed to its places! and yet which does not always experience a similar commitment in return. This book should have a rightful place for anyone interested in phenomenology! place! and body. Informationen zum Autor Dylan Trigg is FWF Lise Meitner Senior Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna, Austria. Klappentext Topophobia: A Phenomenology of Anxietyis a vivid second-person inquiry into how anxiety plays a formative part in the constitution of subjectivity. While anxiety has assumed a central role in the history of philosophy - and phenomenology in particular - until now there has been no sustained study of how it shapes our sense of self and being in the world. This book seeks to address that lacuna. Calling upon the author's own experience of being agoraphobic, it asks a series of critical questions: How is our experience of the world affected by our bodily experience of others? What role do moods play in shaping our experience of the world? How can we understand the role of conditions such as agoraphobia in relation to our normative understanding of the body and the environment? What is the relation between anxiety and home? The reader will gain an insight into the strange experience of being unable to cross a bridge, get on a bus, and enter a supermarket without tremendous anxiety. At the same time, they will discover aspects of their own bodily experience that are common to both agoraphobes and non-agoraphobes alike.Integrating phenomenological inquiry with current issues in the philosophy of mind, Trigg arrives at a renewed understanding of identity, which arranges self, other and world as a unified whole. Written with a sense of vividness often lacking in academic discourse, this is living philosophy.A compelling phenomenological account of anxiety and place drawing upon the rich writings of both the continental tradition and current issues in the philosophy of mind. An original piece of 'living philosophy'. Zusammenfassung Topophobia: A Phenomenology of Anxiety is a vivid second-person inquiry into how anxiety plays a formative part in the constitution of subjectivity. While anxiety has assumed a central role in the history of philosophy – and phenomenology in particular – until now there has been no sustained study of how it shapes our sense of self and being in the world. This book seeks to address that lacuna. Calling upon the author’s own experience of being agoraphobic, it asks a series of critical questions: How is our experience of the world affected by our bodily experience of others? What role do moods play in shaping our experience of the world? How can we understand the role of conditions such as agoraphobia in relation to our normative understanding of the body and the environment? What is the relation between anxiety and home? The reader will gain an insight into the strange experience of being unable to cross a bridge, get on a bus, and enter a supermarket without tremendous anxiety. At the same time, they will discover aspects of their own bodily experience that are common to both agoraphobes and non-agoraph...
