Place and Phenomenology [Hardcover]

This cross-disciplinary book uses phenomenological method and description to explore questions of place, underscoring the significance of phenomenology for place and place for phenomenology.

The book brings together prominent scholars in phenomenology of place. Covering a range of issues from sacred places to embodiment and identity and from environmental art and architecture to limit places, the contributors explore theoretical foundations through thinkers such as Heidegger, Marion-Young, Husserl, and Leopold among others. Phenomenological method and description are brought to bear on concrete places such as rivers, the Himalayas, modern transit, sacred architecture and more. The book is accessible and pertinent to on-going discussions in human geography, architectural theory, environmental studies, and philosophy of place. Provocative and imaginative, the essays provide a much-needed look at the contributions of phenomenology to, as well as the role of place in, contemporary philosophical and environmental discussions.

Janet Donohoe is Dean of the Honors College and Professor of Philosophy at the University of West Georgia. She is the author of Remembering Places (2014).

Contributors: Anne Buttimer, Emeritus Professor of Geography, University College Dublin, Ireland; John Cameron, formerly of University of Tasmania, Australia; Patricia Glazebrook, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the School of Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Washington State University, USA; James Hatley, Professor of Environmental Studies, Salisbury University, USA; Kirsten Jacobson, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Maine, USA; Bruce Janz, Professor of Philosophy, University of Central Florida, USA; Irene Klaver, Director of the Philosophy of Water Project and Professor of Philosophy, University of North Texas, USA; Adam Konopka, Besl Chair of Philosophy, Xavier University, USA; Jonathan Maskit, Visiting Assistant Professor, Denison UniversitlS