Certainly—giving up the ordinary and going back into questioning interpretation is a leap. Only one who takes the right running start can leap. Everything is decided by this run…[1] Martin Heidegger, Introduction to Metaphysics. Note [1] Martin Heidegger, Introduction to Metaphysics, trans. Gregory Fried and Richard Polt (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), 188. Work Cited Heidegger, Martin. Introduction to…
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name. [1] attributed to Confucius Note In The Analects, Confucius affirms: ‘If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If names be not correct, affairs cannot be carried on to success.’ In: Confucius, The Analects, trans. William E. Soothill (Yokohama: Fukuin Printing…
One of the main tenets of my inquiry into the concepts of space and place can be synthesized by the following assertion: at the fundamental level, for me, things and places are the same. It is as if there is just one entity (or sub-stance, in the metaphysical sense of that which stays under what appears), which I can call…
I briefly come back to the renewed sense of place I’ve spoken about in the previous article – What Is Place? What Is Space? – where I’ve said that ‘place is any real entity emerging from inorganic, organic, social and symbolic – or intellectual – processes’ (definition I-R. a); more extendedly – and including a basic definition of reality on…
The potency of place must be a marvelous thing, and take precedence of all other things… That is what place [topos] is: the first unchangeable limit (peras) of that which surrounds.[1] Note [1] In Edward S. Casey, The Fate of Place: A Philosophical History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), 52, 55. In the second statement – the one concerning…