Getting Back Into Place: Toward a Renewed Understanding of the Place-World

by Edward S. Casey

.."". a comprehensive and nuanced account of the role of place in human experience."" -- Word Trade ""In descriptions of unprecedented scope, power, and concision, Casey illuminates brilliantly the vexing question crucial for our What is our place in Nature?"" -- Bruce Wilshire .."". wonderfully insightful... "" -- The Humanistic Psychologist What would the world be like if there were no places? Our lives are so place-oriented that we cannot begin to comprehend sheer ""placelessness."" Despite the pervasiveness of place, for the most part philosophers have neglected it. Here, Casey articulates a nuanced philosophical exploration of the pervasiveness of place in our everyday lives.

Genres: Philosophy, Anthropology, Nonfiction, Geography, Academic, Theory

432 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1993

About the author

Professor Edward Casey was the president of the American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division) from 2009-10, and he was chairman of the Philosophy Department at Stony Brook University for a decade. He works in aesthetics, philosophy of space and time, ethics, perception, and psychoanalytic theory. He obtained his doctorate at Northwestern University in 1967 and has taught at Yale University, the University of California at Santa Barbara, The New School for Social Research, Emory University, and several other institutions. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University.

His recent research includes investigations into place and space; landscape painting and maps as modes of representation; ethics and the other; feeling and emotion; philosophy of perception (with special attention to the role of the glance); the nature of edges.

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