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A Lecture by Edward S. Casey Between Geography and Philosophy: What Does It Mean to Inhabit the Place-World?

Monday, December 3, 3:00 p.m. in EESAT 110

Geographers and philosophers have been converging for some time now - especially in the area of "cultural geography," whose pioneering figures include Yi-Fu Tuan, Edward Relph, Nicholas Entrikin, Edward Soja, and others. While geographers have been turning to philosophy for inspiration, few philosophers have directed themselves to geography. Casey tries to rectify this imbalance by suggesting how philosophical notions of the self and body and place should have direct relevance to geographical theory while drawing inspiration from this theory itself.

The lecture is free and open to the public. For special accommodation, contact us at 565-2266 or philosophy@unt.edu.

Casey is Leading Professor and Chair at State University of New York, Stony Brook. He has been Executive Co-Director of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, and is presently on the Executive Committee for the American Philosophical Association. His early books include Imagining, Remembering, and Spirit and Soul, each of which is a close descriptive study of these psychical phenomena. In the last decade, he has published three books that emphasize the importance of place in human experience: Getting Back into Place (1993), The Fate of Place (1997), and Representing Place (forthcoming, spring 2002). The first of these books gives an experiential account of place that underlines the role of the lived orientational body. In the second, the history of the idea of place - in contrast with space and time - is traced from the ancient Greeks to the present. In the new volume, the representation of place in landscape paintings and maps is explored in detail. Casey's new research bears on the unsuspected power of the glance in human experience; he is also undertaking a book on the phenomenology of feeling.

CEP - PHIL - UNT - November 27, 2001