Possibilities of Place in Continental Thought: Critique, Politics, Philosophy

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Exploring the critical potential of place in continental philosophy, this volume focuses on socio-political and historical context to challenge traditional approaches to place rooted in geography and phenomenology. Chapters on capitalist time, the space-time of slave resistance, the place of thought, and the place of structure point to the ambiguity inherent in philosophical notions of place. By rejecting a singular and homogenous theory of place, this collection collapses the dichotomies that tend to characterise the discourse on place in favour of a plural conceptualisation. This plurality draws attention to the spatial and temporal dynamics within varying theoretical and historical contexts and moves the field forward in significant and vital ways.

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This volume marks an exciting step forward in asserting place as a specific mode and medium of conceptual inquiry. Far more than a designated site in which events happen and meanings accrue, place occasions the very possibility and process of thought. In this, the volume is acutely sensitive to the ways that place moves refusing singular definitions, offering new ways of thinking critically and creatively. * Jessica Dubow, Professor of Cultural Geography, Lancaster University, UK *
One of the casualties of catastrophic climate change is the very possibility of place, for human and other-than-human beings alike. In this volume, Jussi Palmusaari and Nicolas Schneider have assembled a stellar group of scholars, who examine this possibility from a wide range of philosophical perspectives. What is at stake here is not only "philosophy," "critique" or "thought", but the future of place in the age of being displaced and unplaced. * Michael Marder, author (with Edward S. Casey) of Plants in Place: A Phenomenology of the Vegetal *

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Jussi Palmusaari is Lecturer in French and European Politics, Kings College London, UK. Nicolas Schneider is Associate Lecturer at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany and PhD candidate at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University, UK.