Exploring the Work of Edward S. Casey Giving Voice to Place, Memory, and Imagination
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Donald A. Landes is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Azucena Cruz-Pierre is an independent scholar in France.
It is no exaggeration to say that Edward Casey is an extraordinary philosopher. And this book, consisting of an excellent introduction surveying the entirety of Casey’s work, a deeply probing interview, and thoughtful essays on Casey’s philosophical contributions by colleagues and former students, is much more than testimony to Casey’s influence. Exploring the remarkable range of his thought as the most creative, most exciting, most provocative inheritor of Husserlian phenomenology, the contributions to this volume take the reader on an unforgettable journey. To describe the significance and reward of his thought, I will borrow a concept that he has investigated with impressive rigor and simply say that he is one of the very few whose writing is on the cutting edge.
- David Kleinberg-Levin, Professor Emeritus, Northwestern University, USA, author of 'Gestures of Ethical Life' and 'Before the Voice of Reason',
Edward S. Casey is widely known for his honest, attentive openness to phenomena, for his finely nuanced accounts of experience, and for his compelling descriptions of our shared world. The essays and interviews that comprise this work confirm that Casey numbers among the most incisive and creative philosophers today, making original contributions to fields broadly conceived as epistemology, aesthetics, the history of philosophy, and human geography.
- Anthony Steinbock, Professor of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA,
From his initial writings on imagination and memory, to his recent studies of the glance and the edge, the work of American philosopher Edward S. Casey continues to shape 20th-century philosophy. In this first study dedicated to his rich body of work, distinguished scholars from philosophy, urban studies and architecture as well as artists engage with Casey's research and ideas to explore the key themes and variations of his contribution to the humanities.
Structured into three major parts, the volume reflects the central concerns of Casey's writings: an evolving phenomenology of imagination, memory, and place; representation and landscape painting and art; and edges, glances, and voice. Each part begins with an extended interview that defines and explains the topics, concepts, and stakes of each area of research. Readers are thus offered an introduction to Casey’s fascinating body of work, and will gain a new insight into particular aspects and applications of Casey's research.
With a complete bibliography and an introduction that at once stresses each of Casey’s areas of research while putting into perspective their overarching themes, this authoritative volume identifies the overall coherence and interconnections of Edward S. Casey's work and his impact on contemporary thought.
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations of Books by Edward S. Casey
List of Figures and Images
1. Introduction Donald A. Landes and Azucena Cruz-Pierre
Part I: Imagining, Memory, and Place
2. The Weight of Imagining, Memory, and Place: The Multiple Origins of Edward S. Casey’s Thought. Edward S. Casey, interviewed by Donald A. Landes
3. Place, Memory, and History David Carr
4. Casey’s Subliminal Phenomenology: On Edging Things Back into Place David Morris
5. The Remembrance of Place Jeff Malpas
6. A Philosophy of Place? Thierry Paquot, translated by Azucena Cruz-Pierre and Donald A. Landes
7. The Derivation Of Space Eugene Gendlin
8. Place(s) of Ornament Kent Bloomer
9. Plato, Levinas, and the Erotic Image Tanja Staehler
Part II: Painting and Scapes
10. Framing the Landscape Edward S. Casey, interviewed by Azucena Cruz-Pierre
11. Glimpsing the Sublime: Casey, De Kooning, and Abstract Expressionism Galen Johnson
12. Slipping Glancer: Painting Place with Ed Casey Megan Craig
13. Drawing with/in and drawing out. A redefinition of architectural drawing through Edward S. Casey’s meditations on mapping Alberto Pérez-Gómez and Angeliki Sioli
14. Where In the World Is Art's Edge? An Artist's Quest Eve Ingalls
Part III: Edges, Glances, and Worlds
15. The Reinscription of Place Edward S. Casey, interviewed by Azucena Cruz-Pierre
16. Casey Comes to the Edge: Borders, Boundaries, Diagrams, Arts and Islands Gary Shapiro
17. The Body as the Place of Care Eva Feder Kittay
18. Voices and the “Spirit of Place” Fred Evans
Works Cited
Appendix: Chronological Bibliography of the Work of Edward S. Casey (selected), compiled by Kathleen Hulley.
Index
Formerly Continuum Studies in American Philosophy; for titles published before September 2012 click here.
Bloomsbury Studies in American Philosophy presents cutting-edge scholarship in both the history of and contemporary movements in American philosophy. The wholly original arguments, perspectives and research findings in titles in this series make it an important and stimulating resource for students and academics from across the field.
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Donald A. Landes is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Azucena Cruz-Pierre is an independent scholar in France.