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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1 Introduction, Andrew Light, Jonathan M. Smith, and David Roberts
Part 2 I Place and Meaning
Chapter 3 1. Finding Place: Spatiality, Locality, and Subjectivity
Chapter 4 2. In Its Place: Site and Meaning in Richard Serra's Public Sculpture
Chapter 5 3. Sites of Symbolic Density: A Relativistic Approach to Experienced Space
Chapter 6 4. Transformations in the Myth of the Inner Valleys as a Zionist Space
Part 7 II Place and Ethics
Chapter 8 5. Democracy and Sense of Place Values in Environmental Policy
Chapter 9 6. From the Inside Out: The Farm as Place
Chapter 10 7. Commonplaces
Part 11 III Changing Places: Political, Technological, and Economic
Chapter 12 8. Space-Shaping Technologies and the Geographical Disembedding of Place
Chapter 13 9. Can a Sense of Place Be Preserved?
Chapter 14 10. New Meanings of Place: The Place of the Poor and the Loss of Place as a Center of Mediation
Chapter 15 11. Something Wild? Deleuze and Guattari and the Impossibility of Wilderness
Part 16 IV Afterword
Chapter 17 12. Down to Earth: Persons in Place and Natural History
Chapter 18 Index
Chapter 19 About the Editors and Contributors
Chapter 20 Philosophy and Geography Style and Submission Guide
