I consider Edward Casey’s book The Fate of Place: A Philosophical History my raison d’être in the critical debate on the meaning of the concepts of place and space. With this article I want to pay tribute to this fundamental work, which, for me, was complementary to a couple of other texts, more focused on the scientific perspective concerning the…
What does the Portuguese football star Cristiano Ronaldo (CR7) have to do with concepts of place and space? A lot: I believe that examining CR7’s gestures on a football pitch can provide valuable insights into the seamless continuity between ‘body’, ‘place’, and ‘existence’. I mean actual, concrete, bodily existence in a specific place, or even better, existence as being-in-place, which…
To be (at all) is to be in (some) place Archytian Axiom American philosopher Edward S. Casey reports the Archytian axiom in his book The Fate of Place as follows: ‘… to be (at all) is to be in (some) place.’ [1] The original statement by Archytas, as referenced by Simplicius, and reported by Israeli physicist and professor Shmuel Sambursky…