Janz Place, Space and Hermeneutics

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-52214-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 5, 531 Seiten

Reihe: Contributions to Hermeneutics

This book analyzes the hermeneutics of place, raising questions about central issues such as textuality, dialogue, and play. It discusses the central figures in the development of hermeneutics and place, and surveys disciplines and areas in which a hermeneutic approach to place has been fruitful. It covers the range of philosophical hermeneutic theory, both within philosophy itself as well as from other disciplines. In doing so, the volume reflects the state of theorization on these issues, and also looks forward to the implications and opportunities that exist. Philosophical hermeneutics has fundamentally altered philosophy’s approach to place. Issues such as how we dwell in place, how place is imagined, created, preserved, and lost, and how philosophy itself exists in place have become central. While there is much research applying hermeneutics to place, there is little which both reflects on that heritage and critically analyzes a hermeneutic approach to place. This book fills thatvoid by offering a sustained analysis of the central elements, major figures, and disciplinary applications of hermeneutics and place.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Janz, Bruce B.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Foreword;6
2;Acknowledgments;9
3;Contents;10
4;About the Contributors;13
5;Introduction;23
5.1;References;27
6;Part I: Elements of Place, Space and Hermeneutics;28
6.1;Understanding Place;29
6.1.1;1 Phenomenology and Exterophenomenology;30
6.1.2;2 Heidegger and the Township;32
6.1.3;3 The Place of Care;36
6.1.4;4 The World in its Particularity and Contingency;38
6.1.5;5 Methodological Implications of an Exterophenomenology of Place;39
6.1.6;References;41
6.2;Is Place a Text?;43
6.2.1;1 Place and Textuality;46
6.2.2;2 At the Edges of Textuality;50
6.2.3;3 Conclusion;52
6.2.4;References;53
6.3;Narrative and Place;55
6.3.1;1 Introduction;55
6.3.2;2 Place;56
6.3.3;3 Narrative;57
6.3.4;4 Intersections Between Place and Narrative: From Place to Narrative;58
6.3.4.1;4.1 Theory of the Self;58
6.3.4.1.1;4.1.1 Subjectivity and Perception;58
6.3.4.1.2;4.1.2 Personal Identity;59
6.3.4.2;4.2 Ethics: Moral Orientation;61
6.3.4.3;4.3 Theory of Action;62
6.3.4.4;4.4 History: Sites of Memory;64
6.3.5;5 Conclusion: From Narrative to Place;65
6.3.6;References;67
6.4;An Eco-Echo-Philopoetics of Dialog & Place: Why & When Should Language Alert & Alter Itself?;69
6.4.1;1 Re: How Does One Relate to the Other When Dialoging?;69
6.4.2;2 Hear Ye, Hear Ye, Where Are You? Are We with Us?;73
6.4.3;3 What I Say to You Will Not Be Heard … Opening Up Like a Row of Corpses;75
6.4.4;4 Upon “Hearing a Tree Crying,” She Went Out;77
6.4.5;References;79
6.5;Suspended in Mid-Air: Casting Nets and Making Places Between Earth and Sky at Meteora;80
6.5.1;1 Seeking Meteoros;80
6.5.2;2 Air and Nets;82
6.5.3;3 Horizons;84
6.5.4;4 UNESCO World Heritage;85
6.5.5;5 Origins of the Meteorite Landscape and Its Monasteries;87
6.5.6;6 Nineteenth Century Travelogues of Meteora;89
6.5.7;7 Practices and Poetics of Dwelling: Vassily Grigorovich Barsky;91
6.5.8;8 Measure-Taking;94
6.5.9;9 Anterior: Nets and Nests;97
6.5.10;References;100
6.6;Action-Space and Time: Towards an Enactive Hermeneutics;102
6.6.1;1 Bodily Movement and Agentive Time;103
6.6.2;2 Enactive Temporality;106
6.6.3;3 Enactive Temporality in Space Perception;108
6.6.4;4 Enactivist Hermeneutics;111
6.6.5;References;112
6.7;Hermeneutics of Play – Hermeneutics of Place: On Play, Style, and Dream;116
6.7.1;1 Place and Play;118
6.7.1.1;1.1 The Creation of Places;118
6.7.1.2;1.2 Gadamer, Fink, Heidegger;120
6.7.1.3;1.3 Subjectivity;121
6.7.1.4;1.4 Play, Style, Art;122
6.7.2;2 Truth, Method, and Play in the History of Hermeneutics;123
6.7.3;3 Hermeneutics of Place in Truth and Method;127
6.7.3.1;3.1 Dreams;128
6.7.3.1.1;3.1.1 Gadamer and Paul Valéry;129
6.7.4;4 Conclusion;131
6.7.5;References;132
6.8;A Hermeneutics of the Body and Place in Health and Illness;134
6.8.1;1 The Body in Epistemological and Ontological Hermeneutics;135
6.8.2;2 The Hermeneutic Body in Health and Illness;139
6.8.3;References;145
6.9;Place and Non-place: A Phenomenological Perspective;146
6.9.1;1 Introduction;147
6.9.2;2 The Problems with Non-place;148
6.9.3;3 The Bodily Experience of Place and (Non)-Place;150
6.9.4;4 Affectivity, Mood, and Lived Space;153
6.9.5;5 Toward a Hermeneutics of the Airport;156
6.9.6;References;158
7;Part II: Figures and Thinkers;159
7.1;Topos Unbound: From Place to Opening and Back;160
7.1.1;1 Introduction;160
7.1.2;2 The Basic Insights: Da-sein, Place, and Opening;161
7.1.3;3 A Detailed Working Out: Things, Place, Sites, Fourfold Gathering, Space, Horizon;162
7.1.4;4 Deepest Thoughts: Horizon, Region (Gegend), Gegnet (Abiding Expanse); Einräumen (Making Room), Opening, & a Return Back;167
7.1.5;5 Letting Go: Opening, the Free;172
7.1.6;References;173
7.2;The Configuration of Space Through Architecture in the Thinking of Gadamer;174
7.2.1;References;184
7.3;Space and Narrative: Ricoeur and a Hermeneutic Reading of Place;186
7.3.1;1 Place and Interpretation;187
7.3.2;2 Between Metaphorical and Natural Space;190
7.3.3;3 Implications for Ecological and Philosophical Thought;195
7.3.4;References;198
7.4;Gaston Bachelard’s Places of the Imagination and Images of Space;199
7.4.1;1 Introduction: The Mind and Its Places;199
7.4.2;2 Dreamed Spaces and Places Where to Dream;202
7.4.3;3 Another Method? Towards a Hermeneutics of Dreamed Spaces;204
7.4.4;4 Conclusion;208
7.4.5;References;209
7.5;Merleau-Ponty’s Hermeneutic Reflections on Certainty and Place: Science and Art;212
7.5.1;1 Haunting Certainty;212
7.5.2;2 Science Beyond Scientism;217
7.5.3;3 Art Futures;220
7.5.4;References;223
7.6;Arendt’s Multi-perspectivism and the Tension Between Place and Space;226
7.6.1;1 Arendt and Hermeneutics;228
7.6.2;2 The Tension Between Space and Place;230
7.6.3;3 The Activity of Labor and the Rise of World Alienation;231
7.6.4;4 Multi-perspectivism and Rehabilitating the Concept of Space;235
7.6.5;References;239
7.7;Lefebvre, Hermeneutics, and Place;241
7.7.1;1 Lefebvre’s Background;243
7.7.2;2 The Production of Space;245
7.7.3;3 Lefebvre, Nancy, and Mondialisation;249
7.7.4;References;252
7.8;A Discursive View from Somewhere: Foucault’s Epistemic Position;253
7.8.1;1 Positioning Experience and Truth in Discourse;255
7.8.2;2 Discourse Analysis and Perspective-Taking: Towards a Hermeneutic Grounding;260
7.8.3;3 The Epistemic Challenge of Genealogy as a Critique of Power;264
7.8.4;4 A Critical-Hermeneutic Analysis of Genealogy as Standpoint-Epistemology;266
7.8.5;5 Towards a Theory of Reflexive Social Agency;270
7.8.6;References;273
7.9;A Place for James J. Gibson;275
7.9.1;1 Theoretical and Historical Context;276
7.9.2;2 Gibson’s Approach to Perception;277
7.9.2.1;2.1 Theory of Direct Perception;278
7.9.2.2;2.2 The Theory of Affordances;280
7.9.3;3 Towards a Gibsonian Definition of Place;281
7.9.4;4 Towards a Phenomenology of Place;284
7.9.4.1;4.1 Being;285
7.9.4.2;4.2 Meaning;285
7.9.4.3;4.3 Purpose;286
7.9.5;5 Conclusion;286
7.9.6;References;287
7.10;Tuanian Geography;288
7.10.1;1 Tuan and the Rest of Geography;289
7.10.2;2 Tuan and Hermeneutics;290
7.10.3;3 Tuanian Contrasts;294
7.10.4;4 Cultural Variation;296
7.10.5;5 The Ethics and Politics of Binaries;297
7.10.6;6 Final Thoughts;298
7.10.7;References;299
7.11;Edward Casey: Subliminal Hermeneutics in the Wake of Place;301
7.11.1;1 Mapping Casey’s Path to a Hermeneutics of Place;302
7.11.2;2 Place as Proliferative, the Place-Implacement Doublet, and the Moving Body;305
7.11.3;3 Edge, Glance, and Place as Subliminal Horizon of Meaning;308
7.11.4;4 Hermeneutics of Place, in Depth;310
7.11.5;References;311
7.12;Jeff Malpas: From Hermeneutics to Topology;313
7.12.1;1 Placing Explorations of Human Situatedness;313
7.12.2;2 The Topological Nature of Hermeneutics. Understanding Situatedness;316
7.12.3;3 Place, Space and Relationality. The Productiveness of Boundary;319
7.12.4;4 Concluding Remarks;324
7.12.5;References;325
8;Part III: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Spaces of the Hermeneutics of Place and Space;329
8.1;Towards Topopoetics: Space, Place and the Poem;330
8.1.1;1 Towards topopoetics;332
8.1.2;2 Blank Space/Full Space;334
8.1.3;3 Stasis and Flux;337
8.1.4;4 Inside and Outside;339
8.1.5;5 Conclusion;341
8.1.6;References;341
8.2;When the ‘Here and Now’ Is Nowhere;343
8.3;Hermeneutics and Architecture: Buildings-in-Themselves and Interpretive Trustworthiness;357
8.3.1;1 Architectural Hermeneutics and “Buildings-in-Themselves”;358
8.3.2;2 Architectural Hermeneutics and Interpretive Trustworthiness;360
8.3.3;3 Karsten Harries and Natural Symbols;362
8.3.4;4 The Hermeneutic Value of Harries’ Natural Symbols;364
8.3.5;5 Thiis-Evensen’s Architectural Archetypes;364
8.3.6;6 The Hermeneutic Value of Thiis-Evensen’s Architectural Archetypes;366
8.3.7;7 A Participatory Understanding;367
8.3.8;References;369
8.4;The Mental Life of the Metropolis;371
8.4.1;1 The City as a Marketplace;372
8.4.2;2 Sociological Translation;373
8.4.3;3 The Imaginary of Market Value: Consuming, Producing and the Actuarial Dream;375
8.4.4;4 The Symbolic Order: Criteria of Social Selection;376
8.4.5;5 The Real: Effects of Market Value;379
8.4.6;6 The Blasé Attitude as Defense Against Quantification;380
8.4.7;7 The Impasse: The Problem of Self-Worth;382
8.4.8;8 Imagination as Self-Transcendence;382
8.4.9;9 The Scene as the Adventure of Place in the City;384
8.4.10;10 Imagination as a Grey Zone: Mental Health in the Metropolis;386
8.4.11;References;387
8.5;The Hermeneutics of the Urban Spatial Sociologies of Simmel, Benjamin and Lefebvre;389
8.5.1;1 The Hermeneutics of Simmel’s Formal Sociology of Space;392
8.5.2;2 Benjamin and the City as Text;395
8.5.3;3 Lefebvre and the Production of (Urban) Space;398
8.5.4;4 Conclusion;401
8.5.5;References;401
8.6;Toward an Anthropological Understanding of Space and Place;404
8.6.1;1 Ethnographic Understandings;411
8.6.2;2 Geo-symbolic Order;413
8.6.3;3 Conclusion;416
8.6.4;References;417
8.7;Place, Life-World and the Leib: A Reconstructive Perspective on Spatial Experiences for Human Geography;422
8.7.1;1 Beyond Deconstructivism and Constructivism in Geography: The Social Reconstruction of (Spatial) Meaning;424
8.7.2;2 The Trace of Hermeneutics and Phenomenology in Geography;425
8.7.3;3 Towards a Place-Related Pragmatic Social Theory: The Relevance of Schütz’s Life-World Approach and Bollnow’s “Man and Space”;427
8.7.4;4 Refugees Camps in Germany as Created “Non-places”;431
8.7.5;5 Concluding Remarks;432
8.7.6;References;433
8.8;Hermeneutics, Place, and the Environment;435
8.8.1;1 On the Singular Environment and World;436
8.8.2;2 Husserl’s Parts and Wholes Idea of Place and Environment;437
8.8.3;3 Gadamer’s Hermeneutics and Lifeworld;439
8.8.4;4 Place and Hermeneutics;441
8.8.5;References;444
8.9;Psychology and Lived Space: Woodland Paths and the Pathic Dimension of Place Experience;445
8.9.1;1 Consciousness and Spatial Metaphors;446
8.9.2;2 Redefining Place Experience;447
8.9.3;3 The Path;447
8.9.4;4 The Primacy of Experience;449
8.9.5;5 The Pathic Dimension of Experience;449
8.9.6;6 The Semiotic or Meaning Field of Body Experience;450
8.9.7;7 The Surplus of Experience;453
8.9.8;8 The Body in the Soul;454
8.9.9;References;455
8.10;Being on the Edge: Body, Place, Climate;458
8.10.1;1 Edges Everywhere;458
8.10.2;2 Body, Place, Climate;461
8.10.3;3 Three Edge Avatars;462
8.10.4;4 Four Ways the Earth is at High Risk;465
8.10.5;Works Cited;470
8.11;Digital Virtual Places: Utopias, Atopias, Heterotopias;471
8.11.1;1 From Modern Places to “Super-Modern” Non-Places;471
8.11.2;2 The Ambiguity of Digital Virtual Places: Homogeneous Spatiality, Eventful Placiality, and Non-Placiality;473
8.11.3;3 The Middle Heidegger’s Phenomenology of Place and Space: The case of Contributions to Philosophy;475
8.11.4;4 Heidegger’s Critique of Modern Technology and its Aftermath: Digital Calculability, Representationalism, and Informational Space;477
8.11.5;5 A Case for Virtuality: Digital Technologies as Place-Making Technologies;479
8.11.6;6 Digital Virtual Places Beyond Utopias and “Atopias”;480
8.11.7;References;482
8.12;A Woman’s Place: Place-Based Theory, Hermeneutics, and Feminism;484
8.12.1;1 Situatedness and Place;485
8.12.2;2 The Femininity of Place;489
8.12.3;3 The Place of Contingency;492
8.12.4;References;495
8.13;Race as a Historico-Spatial Construct: The Hermeneutical Challenge to Institutional Racism;497
8.13.1;1 Race as a Border Concept;497
8.13.2;2 Racial Geographies;499
8.13.3;3 Enforcing Racial Divisions Spatially;500
8.13.4;4 The Role of Hermeneutics in Combating a Spatially Constructed Racism;505
8.13.5;References;507
8.14;Inattentiveness to Place: The Case of South African Philosophy;509
8.14.1;References;522
8.15;Thinking Across Cultures: Western Hermeneutics and Chinese Exegesis;523
8.15.1;References;533
9;Erratum to: Narrative and Place;536