… does not. Heidegger’s introductory paragraph of the book What Is a Thing? — which is the extended subject of the forthcoming article — is particularly appropriate for further clarification concerning the concepts of place and space (or, at least, it is appropriate for clarification concerning my proposal for rethinking those concepts). As the title of the book suggests, Heidegger’s…
1. Young man at his window: places everywhere This is just common sense: look out the window of your home or office. What do you see? You only see places. A bench, a tree, a park where people converse and children play, a square, a street, a building, a mural on a building’s facade, a bridge, the sun, the sky,…