The Memory of Place

by Trigg, Dylan

• ISBN13: 9780821419755
• ISBN10: 0821419757
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-01-24
• Publisher: Ohio Univ Pr

Summary

From the frozen landscapes of the Antarctic to the haunted houses of childhood, the memory of places we experience is fundamental to a sense of self. Drawing on influences as diverse as Merleau-Ponty, Freud, and J. G. Ballard, The Memory of Placecharts the memorial landscape that is written into the body and its experience of the world. Dylan Trigg's The Memory of Placeoffers a lively and original intervention into contemporary debates within ;place studies, ; an interdisciplinary field at the intersection of philosophy, geography, architecture, urban design, and environmental studies. Through a series of provocative investigations, Trigg analyzes monuments in the representation of public memory; ;transitional ; contexts, such as airports and highway rest stops; and the ;ruins ; of both memory and place in sites such as Auschwitz. While developing these original analyses, Trigg engages in thoughtful and innovative ways with the philosophical and literary tradition, from Gaston Bachelard to Pierre Nora, H. P. Lovecraft to Martin Heidegger. Breathing a strange new life into phenomenology, The Memory of Placeargues that the eerie disquiet of the uncanny is at the core of the remembering body, and thus of ourselves. The result is a compelling and novel rethinking of memory and place that should spark new conversations across the field of place studies. Edward S. Casey, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University and widely recognized as the leading scholar on phenomenology of place, calls The Memory of Place ;genuinely unique and a signal addition to phenomenological literature. It fills a significant gap, and it does so with eloquence and force. ; He predicts that Trigg's book will be ;immediately recognized as a major original work in phenomenology. ;

Author Biography

Dylan Trigg is a GNRS/Volkswagen Stiftung postdoctoral researcher at the Centre de Recherche en Epistmologie Applique, Paris. He is the author of The Aesthetics of Decay and has published widely on phenomenology, Continental philosophy, and aesthetics.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. xi
Preface: Touching the Past	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xxix
Introduction: Phenomenology and Place	p. 1
A Phenomenology of Place	p. 3
Body Memory	p. 9
Embodiment and Phenomenology	p. 13
Placing Phenomenology	p. 17
Second Seeing	p. 22
The Life-World	p. 23
The Uncanny	p. 25
Descriptiveness	p. 38
The Phenomenological Method	p. 40
From Place to Memory
Between memory and Imagination	p. 46
Scene and Surrounding	p. 47
The Memory of Place	p. 53
Journeying Toward Slovenia	p. 62
Dreaming of Place	p. 65
Memory as a Rediscovery	p. 67
Monuments of Memory	p. 71
From Memory to History	p. 72
Placing Narratives	p. 77
A Phenomenology of the Chattri	p. 80
Memory, Meaning, Materiality	p. 88
A Texture of Death	p. 92
From Flesh to Materiality
Memories of the Flesh	p. 101
The Lived-Body	p. 102
Inside and Outside	p. 108
The Absolute Here	p. 110
The Memory of Airports	p. 114
Against Non-Places	p. 119
Wild Being	p. 124
Journeying Toward the Service Station	p. 135
Light, Shadow, Texture	p. 142
Anxious Embodiment	p. 148
Alien Flesh	p. 155
The Dark Entity	p. 167
Place-Making	p. 169
A Phenomenology of Nostalgia	p. 174
Homesickness	p. 180
Spatial Morphology	p. 198
An Uncanny Return	p. 207
The Dark Entity	p. 219
From Black Holes to Specters
Traumatic Embodiment	p. 229
The Event Horizon	p. 232
(Re)claiming Experience	p. 236
The Skin of Memory	p. 239
The Phantom Zone	p. 244
Ruins of Trauma	p. 257
Abnormal Embodiment	p. 258
Memories of Nightmares	p. 263
Taumatized Materiality	p. 267
A Disturbance of Memory	p. 271
Conclusion: This Place Is Haunted	p. 279
Ghost H(a)unting	p. 279
The Doppelg'anger	p. 279
Phantom Memory	p. 287
An Uncanny Mood	p. 293
The Haunting	p. 299
References	p. 327
Index	p. 337
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