List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Life Takes Place: An Introduction
Chapter 2. Preliminaries for a Phenomenology of Place: Principles, Concepts, and Method
Chapter 3. Understanding Place Holistically: Analytic vs. Synergistic Relationality
Chapter 4. Explicating Wholeness: Belonging, Progressive Approximation, and Systematics
Chapter 5. The Monad of Place
Chapter 6. The Dyad of Place
Chapter 7. Understanding the Triad: Relationships, Resolutions, and Processes
Chapter 8. Three Place Impulses and Six Place Triads
Chapter 9. The Triad of Place Interaction
Chapter 10. The Triad of Place Identity
Chapter 11. The Triad of Place Release
Chapter 12. The Triad of Place Realization
Chapter 13. The Triad of Place Intensification
Chapter 14. The Triad of Place Creation
Chapter 15. Integrating the Six Place Processes
Chapter 16. Life Takes Place: Criticisms, Concerns, and the Future of Places
References
Index
Life Takes Place argues that, even in our mobile, hypermodern world, human life is impossible without place. Seamon asks the question: why does life take place? He draws on examples of specific places and place experiences to understand place more broadly. Advocating for a holistic way of understanding that he calls synergistic relationality, Seamon defines places as spatial fields that gather, activate, sustain, identify, and interconnect things, human beings, experiences, meanings, and events.
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