Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Philip Laughlin and the team at the MIT Press for their support in bringing this project to fruition. Thanks are also due to the Australian Research Council for providing the fellowship that enabled this work to be completed, as well as the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for their continuing support over a decade or more.

There are many friends and colleagues who have contributed in various ways to the ideas set out here, but I would particularly like to thank Bernardo Ainbinder, Andrew Benjamin, Miguel de Bestegui, Andrew Brennan, Chan-Fai Cheung, Steve Crowell, Stuart Elden, Ingo Farin, Hans-Helmuth Gander, Laurence Hemming, Norelle Lickiss, Linn Miller, Dermot Moran, James Phillips, Edward Relph, Glenda Satne, Ligia Saramago, David Seamon, Lucy Tatman, Lubica Ucnik, Jin Xiping, Julian Young, and Günter Zöller. I am also grateful for the continuing support of the School of Philosophy at the University of Tasmania, and especially the help of Irene Sawford, as well as Bronwyn Peters and Sally Laing.

I would like to thank the original publishers for allowing me to make use of the following material:

“The Place of Topology: Responding to Crowell, Bestegui, and Young,” International Journal of Philosophical Studies 19 (2011): 305–325 (chapter 3); and “Heidegger in Benjamin’s City,” Journal of Architecture, 12 (2007): 489–499 (chapter 11)—both with kind permission of the publisher, Taylor & Francis Ltd., http://www.informaworld.com.

“From the Transcendental to the Topological: Heidegger on Ground, Unity, and Limit,” in From Kant to Davidson: Philosophy and the Idea of the Transcendental, ed. Jeff Malpas (London: Routledge, 2002) (chapter 4); “Objectivity and Self-Disclosedness: The Phenomenological Working of Art,” in Art and Phenomenology, ed. Joseph Parry (London: Routledge, 2010) (chapter 12); “Death and the Unity of a Life,” in Death and Philosophy, ed. J. E. Malpas and Robert C. Solomon (London: Routledge, 1998) (chapter 12); and “Beginning in Wonder,” in Philosophical Romanticism, ed. Nikolas Kompridis (London: Routledge, 2006) (epilogue)—all with kind permission of Routledge and the Taylor & Francis Group.

“Nihilism and the Thinking of Place,” in The Movement of Nihilism, Laurence Paul Hemming and Bogdan Costea (London: Continuum, 2010) (chapter 5), with kind permission of the Continuum International Publishing Group.

“Heidegger, Space, and World,” in Heidegger and Cognitive Science, ed. Julian Kiverstein and Michael Wheeler (London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2010) (chapter 6), with kind permission of Palgrave Macmillan.

“Heidegger, Geography, and Politics,” Journal of the Philosophy of History 2 (2008): 185–213 (chapter 7); and “Philosophy’s Nostalgia,” in Philosophy’s Moods: The Affective Grounds of Thinking, ed. Hagi Kenaan and Ilit Ferber (Dordrecht: Springer, 2011) (chapter 8)—both with kind permission of Springer Verlag.

“Locating Interpretation: The Topography of Understanding in Heidegger and Davidson,” Philosophical Topics 27 (1999): 129–148 (chapter 10) (©1999 University of Arkansas, http://www.uapress.com), with kind permission of the University of Arkansas Press.

Last, but by no means least, I would like to acknowledge, and express my thanks for, the continuing love and support of my wife, Margaret, without which neither these essays, nor much else besides, would have been possible.