Heidegger's TopologyAuthor :
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Published : Friday 29 August 2008
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This groundbreaking inquiry into the centrality of place in Martin Heideggers thinking offers not only an illuminating reading of Heideggers thought but a detailed investigation into the way in which the concept of place relates to core philosophical issues. In Heideggers Topology, Jeff Malpas argues that an engagement with place, explicit in Heideggers later work, informs Heideggers thought as a whole. What guides Heideggers thinking, Malpas writes, is a conception of philosophys starting point: our finding ourselves already "there," situated in the world, in "place". Heideggers concepts of being and place, he argues, are inextricably bound together.
Malpas follows the development of Heideggers topology through three stages: the early period of the 1910s and 1920s, through Being and Time, centered on the "meaning of being"; the middle period of the 1930s into the 1940s, centered on the "truth of being"; and the late period from the mid-1940s on, when the "place of being" comes to the fore. (Malpas also challenges the widely repeated arguments that link Heideggers notions of place and belonging to his entanglement with Nazism.) The significance of Heidegger as a thinker of place, Malpas claims, lies not only in Heideggers own investigations but also in the way that spatial and topographic thinking has flowed from Heideggers work into that of other key thinkers of the past 60 years.
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