Can I read Philosophies of Place : An Intercultural Conversation on EtoBox?

Philosophies of Place : An Intercultural Conversation by Peter D. Hershock, Roger T. Ames, James P. Buchanan, Meera Baindur, Steven Burik is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Philosophies of Place : An Intercultural Conversation about?

"Humanity takes up space. Human beings, like many other species, also transform spaces. What is perhaps uniquely human is the disposition to qualitatively transform spaces into places that are charged with distinctive kinds of intergenerational significance. There is a profound, felt difference between a house as domestic space and a home as familial place or between the summit of a mountain one has climbed for the first time and the "same" rock pinnacle celebrated in ancestral narratives. Contemporary philosophical uses of the word "place" often pivot on the distinction between "space" and "place" formalized by geographer-philosopher Yi-fu Tuan, who suggested that places incorporate the experiences and aspirations of a people over the course of their moral and aesthetic engagement with sites and locations. While spaces afford possibilities for different kinds of presence-physical, emotional, cognitive, dramatic, spiritual-places emerge as different ways of being present, fuse over time, and saturate a locale with distinctively collaborative patterns of significance. This approach to issues of place, however, is emblematic of what Edward S. Casey has argued are convictions about th

Author

Peter D. Hershock, Roger T. Ames, James P. Buchanan, Meera Baindur, Steven Burik

Publisher

University of Hawaiʻi Press : East-West Philosophers' Conference

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780824892364

Subjects

Philosophy, Humanities