Philosophy of Place; Finding Place and Self in the World

ISBN-13: 9781433192555 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

Matthew Gildersleeve; Andrew Crowden

Opis

This book discusses the philosophy of place and the implications for understanding ourselves authentically. It sets out to investigate this by providing a review of the phenomenological and humanistic views of place as background reading for the chapters that follow.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments - Matthew Gildersleeve/Andrew Crowden: Introduction to the Philosophy of Place - Luca Valera: From the Ecological Crisis to the Oikos: Looking at What Makes Us Psychologically Different - Riccardo Carli: Place and Subjectivity: Nietzsche's Topological Philosophy - Stefan Gullatz: Primordial Place in Peter Sloterdijk's Anthropology of Roundness - Matthew Gildersleeve: Power, Foucault and Place - Carmen Cozma: On "Cosmicism" as a Defining Dimension of Human Beingness-in-Becoming within the Romanian Metaphysics - Andrew Crowden: Philosophy of Place and Bioethics - Jennifer Greenwood: Learning One's Place: Context and Content in the Conceptual Co-Construction of Self and Place - Matthew Gildersleeve/Andrew Crowden: Book Summary and New Insights - Notes on Contributors - Index.

O autorze

Matthew Gildersleeve completed his PhD at the University of Queensland where he teaches and conducts research in Brisbane, Australia. He has published articles in the Journal of Analytical Psychology, the Humanistic Psychologist and Philosophy Now. His research interests are in philosophy, psychology, psychotherapy and sport science and has recently been funded to research and write about the philosophy of place.Andrew Crowden, Ph.D. is a practical ethicist. He is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Queensland's School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne and Adjunct Professor at the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC) where he is Chairperson of the Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) and Chairperson of the Animal Ethics Committee. He is also Deputy Chair of the AIATSIS Research Ethics Committee. He has published articles in national and international journals.