ISBN:
9781846317217
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (vii, 171 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s).
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Conley, Verena Andermatt, 1943 - Spatial ecologies
Parallel Title:
Print version
DDC:
840.9
Keywords:
Place (Philosophy)
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Philosophy, French, 20th century.
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Philosophy, French 20th century
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Place (Philosophy)
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Frankreich
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Kulturtheorie
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Raum
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Geschichte
Abstract:
Spatial Ecologies takes a new look at the ℗“spatial turn℗” in French cultural and critical theory since 1968. Verena Andermatt Conley examines how Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, Jean Baudrillard, Marc AugeÌ, Paul Virilio, Bruno Latour and Etienne Balibar reconsider the experience of space in the midst of considerable political and economic turmoil. The book considers why French critical theorists turned away from questions of time and looked instead toward questions of space. It asks what writing about space can tell us about life in late capitalism. Conley links this question to the problematic of habitality, taking us back to Heidegger and showing how it informs much of French theory. Building on the author's acclaimed earlier study Ecopolitics, Spatial Ecologies argues, through the voices of the authors taken up the eight chapters, for recognition of the virtue of spatial theory and its pragmatic applications in the global milieu. It will be required reading for scholars of literary and cultural theory, and twentieth- and twenty-first century French culture.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: Space as a Critical Concept -- 1. Henri Lefebvre: Lived Spaces -- 2. Michel de Certeau: Anthropological Spaces -- 3. Jean Baudrillard: Media Places -- 4. Marc Augé: Non-Places -- 5. Paul Virilio: Speed Space -- 6. Deleuze and Guattari: Space and Becoming -- 7. Bruno Latour: Common Spaces -- 8. Etienne Balibar: Spatial Fictions -- Conclusion: Future Spaces -- Bibliography -- Index.
Note:
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