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A growing literature testifies to the persistence of place as an incorrigible aspect of human experience, identity, and morality. Place is a common ground for thought and action, a community of experienced particulars that avoids solipsism and universalism. It draws us into the philosophy of the ordinary, into familiarity as a form of knowledge, into the wisdom of proximity. Each of these essays offers a philosophy of place, and reminds us that such philosophies ultimately decide how we make, use, and understand places, whether as accidents, instruments, or fields of care.
Table des matières
Chapter 1 Introduction, Andrew Light, Jonathan M. Smith, and David Roberts Part 2 I Place and Meaning Chapter 3 1. Finding Place: Spatiality, Locality, and Subjectivity Chapter 4 2. In Its Place: Site and Meaning in Richard Serra's Public Sculpture Chapter 5 3. Sites of Symbolic Density: A Relativistic Approach to Experienced Space Chapter 6 4. Transformations in the Myth of the Inner Valleys as a Zionist Space Part 7 II Place and Ethics Chapter 8 5. Democracy and Sense of Place Values in Environmental Policy Chapter 9 6. From the Inside Out: The Farm as Place Chapter 10 7. Commonplaces Part 11 III Changing Places: Political, Technological, and Economic Chapter 12 8. Space-Shaping Technologies and the Geographical Disembedding of Place Chapter 13 9. Can a Sense of Place Be Preserved? Chapter 14 10. New Meanings of Place: The Place of the Poor and the Loss of Place as a Center of Mediation Chapter 15 11. Something Wild? Deleuze and Guattari and the Impossibility of Wilderness Part 16 IV Afterword Chapter 17 12. Down to Earth: Persons in Place and Natural History Chapter 18 Index Chapter 19 About the Editors and Contributors Chapter 20 Philosophy and Geography Style and Submission Guide
A propos de l'auteur
Andrew Light is assistant professor of philosophy and environmental studies at SUNY-Binghamton. Jonathan M. Smith is associate professor of geography at Texas A&M University.
