Repository | Book
The changing faces of space
Abstract
This book focuses on various concepts of space and their historical evolution. In particular, it examines the variations that have modified the notions of place, orientation, distance, vacuum, limit, bound and boundary, form and figure, continuity and contingence, in order to show how spatial characteristics are decisive in a range of contexts: in the determination and comprehension of exteriority; in individuation and identification; in defining the meaning of nature and of the natural sciences; in aesthetical formations and representations; in determining the relationship between experience, behavior and environment; and in the construction of mental and social subjectivity. Accordingly, the book offers a comprehensive review of concepts of space as formulated by Kant, Husserl, Heidegger, Einstein, Heisenberg, Penrose and Thorne, subsequently comparing them to notions developed more recently, in the current age, which Foucault dubbed the age of space. The book is divided into four distinct yet deeply interconnected parts, which explore the space of life, the space of experience, the space of science and the space of the arts.
Details | Table of Contents
Umwelt and space in Jakob von Uexküll
pp.3-17
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66911-3_1ethics and ontology
pp.19-34
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66911-3_2pp.35-55
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66911-3_3Karl Löwith and Martin Buber as theorists of duheit
pp.57-73
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66911-3_4the space of life
pp.101-105
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66911-3_6phenomenology and spatial continuity (Husserl, Becker, Weyl)
pp.139-163
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66911-3_9from the analytic of the open to the topology of the site in Heideggerian philosophy
pp.165-180
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66911-3_10the space of experience
pp.181-191
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66911-3_11a very old question
pp.195-205
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66911-3_12bachelardian space between philosophy and poetics
pp.207-218
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66911-3_13Cassirer's interpretation of the theory of relativity
pp.235-254
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66911-3_15the space of sciences
pp.255-256
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66911-3_16first notes on cosmological aesthetics
pp.259-275
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66911-3_17left and right in the mythic and aesthetic space
pp.289-303
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66911-3_19pp.305-314
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66911-3_20space of arts
pp.315-318
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66911-3_21Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Dordrecht
Year: 2017
Pages: 327
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-66911-3
ISBN (hardback): 978-3-319-66910-6
ISBN (digital): 978-3-319-66911-3
Full citation:
Masi Felice (2017) The changing faces of space. Dordrecht, Springer.