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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788179403321

Autore

Loewen Gregory V.

Titolo

Place meant : hermeneutic landscapes of the spatial self / / G.V. Loewen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : University Press of America, Inc., , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-7618-6493-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Disciplina

304.23

Soggetti

Place attachment

Space perception

Self (Philosophy)

Self-perception

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>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? </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Place Meant</span><span> explores these and related questions through the lenses of psychoanalysis, sociology, geography, folklore, and history.</span></span>