Place Meant Hermeneutic Landscapes of the Spatial Self [Hardcover]

[The author] is constantly researching and teaching in the U.S.A. and Canada for over two decades. This assured his excellence in interdisciplinary interpretation so he became one of the most zealous seekers in [noetics, hermeneutics and phenomenology]. . . .Being a dynamic book, Place Meant is filled with pop-culture references . . . The writer seems to address its work to every individual concerned in creating a personal topology facing the fact that eventually the human race wouldve developed to a point when well shoot sci-fi films in the actual outer space.What does place mean for human beings? What does it mean to exist in space? How do we place ourselves not only in physical space, but within the interior landscape of consciousness? Place Meant explores these and related questions through the lenses of psychoanalysis, sociology, geography, folklore, and history.What does place mean for human beings? What does it mean to exist in space? How do we place ourselves not only in physical space, but within the interior landscape of consciousness? Place Meant is an interdisciplinary exploration of these and related questions, through the lenses of psychoanalysis, sociology, anthropology, geography, folklore, memoir, and the history of ideas. It will be of interest to anyone who has traveled the earth and pondered their relationship to home, away, and the world at large.Introduction: AutotopologiesChapter 1: Here1.1 Horizontal Departures1.2 Logos-Topos1.3 AufenhaltChapter 2: There2.1 Vorschein2.2 Outer Space2.3 ApokotastasisChapter 3: Anywhere3.1 Agora3.2 Specialties/Spatialities3.3 ApophasisChapter 4: Everywhere4.1 Offentlichkeit4.2 Epektasis4.3 VigilanceChapter 5: Nowhere5.1 Verborgenes5.2 Send in the Kleins5.3 The Final Frontier?Conclusion: The Noetics of Space?NotesReferencesG. V. Loewen is a social philosopher who has been researching and teaching in the United States and Canada for over two decades. The author of nineteen books, he is currently chair of the Depl“æ