Description
Book SynopsisThis book discusses the philosophy of place and the implications for understanding ourselves authentically. It sets out to investigate this by providing a review of the phenomenological and humanistic views of place as background reading for the chapters that follow. This contributed book offers unique chapters from international scholars on place in relation to individual philosophers such as Nietzsche, Sloterdijk, Foucault, as well as more broad areas of research including Ecology, Ontogenesis, Bioethics and Metaphysics. The book then presents an integration of the arguments of the contributing authors to give a better and fresh insight to the relationship between place and self. This fusion of chapters amplifies each to show how they all have an important contribution to an expanded understanding of place and self. This combination of topics as well as each author's view of place makes this book an important contribution to the literature. The book is intended for philosophers bu
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments – Matthew Gildersleeve/Andrew Crowden: Introduction to the Philosophy of Place – Luca Valera: From the Ecological Crisis to the Oikos: Looking at What Makes Us Psychologically Different – Riccardo Carli: Place and Subjectivity: Nietzsche’s Topological Philosophy – Stefan Gullatz: Primordial Place in Peter Sloterdijk’s Anthropology of Roundness – Matthew Gildersleeve: Power, Foucault and Place – Carmen Cozma: On "Cosmicism" as a Defining Dimension of Human Beingness-in-Becoming within the Romanian Metaphysics – Andrew Crowden: Philosophy of Place and Bioethics – Jennifer Greenwood: Learning One’s Place: Context and Content in the Conceptual Co-Construction of Self and Place – Matthew Gildersleeve/Andrew Crowden: Book Summary and New Insights – Notes on Contributors – Index.
