Place Meant: Hermeneutic Landscapes of the Spatial Self

by G. V. Loewen

Overview

What does place mean for human beings? What does it mean to exist in space? How do we place ourselves not only in physical space, but within the interior landscape of consciousness? Place Meant is an interdisciplinary exploration of these and related questions, through the lenses of psychoanalysis, sociology, anthropology, geography, folklore, memoir, and the history of ideas. It will be of interest to anyone who has traveled the earth and pondered their relationship to home, away, and the world at large.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761864936
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	12/16/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	278
File size:	661 KB

About the Author

G. V. Loewen is a social philosopher who has been researching and teaching in the United States and Canada for over two decades. The author of nineteen books, he is currently chair of the Department of Sociology at St. Thomas More College of the University of Saskatchewan.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Autotopologies
Chapter 1: Here
1.1 Horizontal Departures
1.2 Logos-Topos
1.3 Aufenhalt
Chapter 2: There
2.1 Vorschein
2.2 Outer Space
2.3 Apokotastasis
Chapter 3: Anywhere
3.1 Agora
3.2 Specialties/Spatialities
3.3 Apophasis
Chapter 4: Everywhere
4.1 Offentlichkeit
4.2 Epektasis
4.3 Vigilance
Chapter 5: Nowhere
5.1 Verborgenes
5.2 Send in the Kleins
5.3 The Final Frontier?
Conclusion: The Noetics of Space?
Notes
References

Editorial Reviews

[The author] is constantly researching and teaching in the U.S.A. and Canada for over two decades. This assured his excellence in interdisciplinary interpretation so he became one of the most zealous seekers in [noetics, hermeneutics and phenomenology]. . . .Being a dynamic book, Place Meant is filled with pop-culture references . . . The writer seems to address its work to every individual concerned in creating a personal topology facing the fact that eventually the human race would’ve developed to a point when we’ll shoot sci-fi films in the actual outer space.

Meta: Research in Hermeneutics

[The author] is constantly researching and teaching in the U.S.A. and Canada for over two decades. This assured his excellence in interdisciplinary interpretation so he became one of the most zealous seekers in [noetics, hermeneutics and phenomenology].. . .Being a dynamic book, Place Meant is filled with pop-culture references. .. The writer seems to address its work to every individual concerned in creating a personal topology facing the fact that eventually the human race would’ve developed to a point when we’ll shoot sci-fi films in the actual outer space.

Meta: Research in Hermeneutics