Philosophy and Geography III Philosophies of Place

by Light, Andrew; Smith, Jonathan M.; Brey, Philip; Caragata, Lee; Dickinson, James; Glidden, David; Gottlieb, Sara; Hannon, Bruce; Howard, Ian; Malpas, Jeff; Mandoki, Katya; Maskit, Jonathan; Norton, Bryan G.; Paden, Roger; Roberts, David; III, Holmes Rolst

• ISBN13: 9780847690947
• ISBN10: 0847690946
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-12-23
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

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 of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix	(1)
Acknowledgments	x
Introduction: Philosophies and Geographies of Place	1	(20)
Jonathan M. Smith
Andrew Light
David Roberts
1. Place and Meaning	21	(98)
Finding Place: Spatiality, Locality, and Subjectivity	21	(24)
Jeff Malpas
In Its Place: Site and Meaning in Richard Serra's Public Sculpture	45	(28)
James Dickinson
Sites of Symbolic Density: A Relativistic Approach to Experienced Space	73	(24)
Katya Mandoki
Transformations in the Myth of the Inner Valleys as a Zionist Place	97	(22)
Izhak Schnell
2. Place and Ethics	119	(72)
Democracy and Sense of Place Values in Environmental Policy	119	(28)
Bryan Norton
Bruce Hannon
From the Inside Out: The Farm as Place	147	(22)
Ian Howard
Commonplaces	169	(22)
David Glidden
3. Changing Places: Political, Technological, and Economic	191	(94)
Can a Sense of Place Be Preserved?	191	(24)
David Wasserman
Mick Womersley
Sara Gottlieb
New Meanings of Place: The Place of the Poor and the Loss of Place as a Center of Mediation	215	(24)
Lea Caragata
Space-Shaping Technologies and the Geographical Disembedding of Place	239	(26)
Philip Brey
Something Wild? Deleuze and Guattari and the Impossibility of Wilderness	265	(20)
Jonathan Maskit
4. Afterword Down to Earth: Persons in Place in Natural History	285	(12)
Holmes Rolston III
Index	297	(8)
About the Editors and Contributors	305	(2)
Philosophy and Geography Style and Submission Guide	307