Index

Action, 104, 123, 134

body and, 55, 119

Dasein and, 118

narrative and, 189

rationality and, 188

sphere of, 118, 119, 122

understanding and, 207, 210

unity of life and, 181, 183

Activity, human, 31, 103, 106, 174, 184–185, 192

Adorno, Theodor, 68

Agamben, Giorgio, 140–141, 142, 145

Agency/agents, 104, 122–123, 199

embodied, 183, 184, 208

narrative (storytelling) and, 189

projection and, 320n18

“rational,” 206

A la recherche du temps perdu [In Search of Lost Time] (Proust), 165, 238, 314n10

Aletheia (unconcealment), 16, 22, 90, 216, 220, 330n57. See also Disclosedness

“Analytic of Concepts” (Kant), 89

Animals, nonhuman, 124–129, 137, 145, 302nn38–39

anthropocentric bias and, 128, 304n50

death unknown to, 323n39

living vs. having a life, 178, 179, 319n12, 320–321n19

species nature of, 126, 147, 150

world and, 147

Annales school, 139

Antifoundationalism, 222

Anti-Semitism, 145, 147, 303n47, 309–310n23

Appearance, 19, 37

aspectual character of, 91, 289n62

Dasein and, 205

Event and, 30

Fourfold and, 18, 139

origin and, 14

place of, 47

of things, 14, 46, 228

wonder and, 254, 256, 257, 258–259, 260

world and, 29

Arcades Project, The (Benjamin), 234–235

Arendt, Hannah, 2, 232, 235, 270n2, 319n17, 334n14

Aristotle, 2, 36, 86, 253, 264, 285n19

on being, 78–79

on death, 318n5

equivocity of being and, 80

limit and, 85, 89

mathematics and, 102, 292n19

on origin of philosophy, 251, 258

on place as origin, 270n3

place (topos) defined by, 38, 277n36

primacy of place and, 3

thesis and place in, 106–107

unity in, 83

“Art and Space” (Heidegger and Chillida), 152

Art/artworks, 132, 229

classical Greek temple, 242, 336–337n14

locatedness of, 245, 337–338n22

objectivity of, 237, 239–250, 334–335n2

ontologies of, 238, 240–241

self-presencing of, 249–250

wonder and, 255, 256

Attitudes, 45, 192

holistic view of, 209

identity and, 193

truth and, 217, 219

understanding and, 207, 210

unity of life and, 181, 183, 184

Auguries of Innocence (Blake), 255

Australia, 3, 64

Bambach, Charles, 309n16

Bassin, Mark, 151

Baudrillard, Jean, 164

Beauty, 258, 259, 336n14

Bed (Rauschenberg), 247

Behavior, 123, 209

of honeybees in Heidegger’s example, 125, 126

linguistic, 207, 210, 211, 212, 213

spatiality and, 113, 119, 134

truth and, 217

unity of life and, 183, 192

Being, 8, 62, 262–263. See also Topology of being (Typologie des Seyns)

of artwork as object, 244

being-in-place, 168, 171, 316n34

of beings, 76–77, 87

coming-to-be, 244

equivocity of, 80, 86, 87

forgetting/forgetfulness of, 20, 73, 77, 229

givenness of, 21

ground and, 75–76, 94

happening of, 266

history of, 24, 33–35, 59–60

human being in relation to, 99, 105, 110, 146

iridescence of, 17

meaning of, 15, 199

multiplicity of, 78, 86, 130

place (topos) and, 16, 130

as presence, 36, 37, 164

questionability and, 37

stages in thinking of, 92, 290n66

thinking of, 13

time as horizon of, 18

truth of, 168

unity of, 78, 79, 80, 87, 93

Being and Time (Heidegger), 1, 18, 19, 39, 78, 229

ambiguity in, 103

being of Dasein, 15

circularity in, 81

critical views of, 24, 273n3

on Dasein, 91, 113, 146, 178, 182, 196, 203–204, 319n15

death as theme in, 61, 177

derivation in, 54, 281n26

disclosedness in, 215

dwelling in, 66–67, 143

early vs. late Heidegger and, 24–25

on equiprimordiality, 32, 88, 89

failure of, 25–27

ground in, 91

Heidegger’s later thinking and, 40–41

hermeneutical and transcendental in, 21

“heroes” in, 62

on meaning, 88

multiple senses of being in, 86

nostalgia and, 166, 167–168, 315n18

ontology and, 199

phenomenology in, 38

place associated with spatiality, 17

on projection, 319–320n18

questionability of place in, 152

relations of priority in, 52

space and spatiality in, 114–121

subjectivism and, 16, 105, 107, 109

technology critiqued in, 35

topology and, 138

Uexküll and, 145–146.147

world in, 27–33, 128, 145, 231–232

writing of, 226

Being-in, 2, 114, 118, 152, 204

as active involvement, 113

of Dasein, 118

topos as mode of, 3

Being-in-the-world, 2, 15, 113, 114, 145, 146

body and, 116

Dasein as, 139, 147, 167, 201, 203

having a life and, 179, 194

intentionality and, 307n6

language and, 210

nostalgia and, 172

originary temporality and, 121

physicalist account of, 214

placedness and, 194

questioning of, 155

spatiality and, 152, 296n1

truth and, 220

Umwelt and, 144, 303–304n49

Being-there, 228, 266

of artwork, 242

Dasein as, 168

presence as, 37

subjectivity and, 262

transparency and, 261

Beistegui, Miguel de, 6, 44, 56–57, 58, 59

Belief, 181, 182, 184, 320n19

as intentional concept, 214

truth and, 217, 219, 220

understanding and, 210

Benjamin, Andrew, 239, 240, 243–244, 245, 249, 335–336n10, 337n21

Benjamin, Walter, 2, 7, 225–226, 233

flâneur’s experiences and, 228–229

library as solitary place of thinking, 234, 234–235

on “trace,” 230

transparency theme in, 232

Besetzen (taking/filling of position), 101, 292n11

Bestand (resource), 109

Bettelheim, Bruno, 188

Biologists, German, 145

“Black Forest—Heidegger at Home” (White), 225

Blake, William, 255, 340n10

Bloch, Marc, 139

Body, the, 115–116, 118, 297n11, 323n44

agency and, 183–184

death as physical event and, 191

end of life and, 194–195

forward projection of, 54–55

lived body, 116, 297n14

spatiality and, 119

unity of a life and, 180

Bollnow, Otto, 166

Borges, Jorge Luis, 192, 317n4, 323n39

Borgmann, Albert, 164

Boundary, 4, 21, 90, 101, 288n56. See also Horizon; Limit

ground and, 89

presencing and, 90

thesis and, 101

Boym, Svetlana, 166, 169–170, 172, 314n6

Brentano, Franz, 78, 285n15

Brewer, Bill, 113

“Building Dwelling Thinking” (Heidegger), 18–19, 30, 31, 57, 202

on boundary, 101

on death as bridge, 61

death as theme in, 177

Fourfold in, 152

on gathering of Fourfold, 89

structure of place and, 40

Camus, Albert, 2, 177

Care, structure of, 81, 82, 232

Cartesian thought, 26, 107, 115, 155

Casey, Edward, 39, 43, 60, 167, 173

Cézanne, Paul, 335n2, 339n31

Chamberlain, Houston S., 141, 145, 309–310n23

Charity, principle of, 207, 208, 217

Chillida, Eduardo, 152

Cinema, 229

Circularity, 20

City, 226–227, 231

flâneur’s experiences in, 228–229

Greek polis, 232–233

solitude absent from, 227–228

Clauss, Ludwig, 310–311n31

Clearing (Lichtung), 87, 90, 132

as happening of truth, 3, 16

presence and, 19

spatiality and, 113

Closing, 2, 35, 90, 91, 216

Cognition, 80, 123, 134

animals’ intelligence, 304n50

a priori judgments and, 79, 81

spatiality and, 113, 119

Cognitive science, 113–114, 134

Consciousness, 2, 45, 46, 87, 262

Containment, spatial, 67, 113, 118, 121, 298–299n22, 298n20

Content

externalist conception of, 222

intentional, 209

nonconceptual, 123–124, 301–302nn36–37

triangulation and, 218

truth and, 217

Contributions to Philosophy (Heidegger), 29, 30, 31, 56–58, 62, 106, 282n40

Conversation, 8–9, 19

Country Path Conversations (Heidegger), 46

Countryside, 18–19, 225, 231

Courbet, Gustave, 337n22

Cozens, J. R., 242, 336–337n14

Critique of Pure Reason (Kant), 54, 79, 80, 81, 83, 86, 132

Crowell, Steven, 4, 6, 44, 45, 56

asymmetrical dependence and, 54

on discontinuity of self-identity, 171

on nostalgia, 171, 172

on subjectivity, 50–51, 52, 53

Darwin, Charles, 304n50

Dasein, 14, 152, 286n30. See also There/here (Da)

ambiguity of, 271n14

analytic of, 89

being-in of, 118

as being-in-the-world, 113, 139, 147, 167, 201, 203

being of, 92

bodily nature of, 118, 297n11

care-structure of, 115

death and, 318n5

disclosedness and, 203

“dispersal” as threat to, 196

dwelling and, 66–67

human being and, 16, 17, 182

meaning and, 87, 204

projecting of possibilities and, 30, 130

as questionable being, 15, 271n7

spatiality of, 116–118, 134

Spielraum and, 305n61

structure of, 86–87, 92

truth and, 332n66

unity of, 26, 27, 32, 58, 115, 178

world-formation and, 131, 305n55

Davidson, Donald, 2, 7, 8, 23, 43, 70, 200–201

on belief, 182, 219

Gadamer’s engagement with, 220–221, 333n75

on intentionality, 248, 338n25

on interpretation, 213–215

on meaningful world, 201, 325n6

on normativity, 213

ontologized hermeneutics and, 200, 324n2

on rationality, 212

skepticism and, 215–216, 330n56

topography of, 205–215

triangulation of, 51–52, 54

on truth, 218

Davis, Fred, 166, 167

Death, 7, 60–62, 316n38

being of Dasein and, 92

finitude and, 189–196

of God, 106, 109

life connected to, 177–178

as limit, 178, 190

nostalgia and, 171

ontology and, 191, 322n34

as physical event, 191, 322n34

as shrine of Nothing, 197

Decision theory, 205

Deleuze, Gilles, 49, 66, 149

Dependence, asymmetrical, 54

Derivation, 32, 52, 54, 281n25

Event and, 29

as formal notion, 281n26

participation and, 53

of spatiality from temporality, 58, 115, 118, 204, 297n9

Derrida, Jacques, 24, 133, 134, 164

Descartes, René, 107, 108, 293n24, 295n38

Desire, 181, 183, 184, 320n19

as intentional concept, 214

understanding and, 210

Determinism, biological and geographic, 148, 149

Deutschland: Einführung in die Heimatkunde (Ratzel), 150

Dialogue (dialogic), 8–9, 199, 221, 223, 333n75

Dickinson, Robert, 148

Différance, 133, 306n75

Difference, ontological, 40, 49, 76, 134, 304n50. See also Ontology

between being and beings, 77

questionability and, 33

Differentiation, 117, 119, 133

Dilthey, Wilhelm, 87

Dimensionality, 117, 297n15

Disclosedness, 16, 203, 219, 326n17. See also Aletheia (unconcealment)

in artwork, 244–246

happening of, 199

language and, 211

place of, 200, 204

world–earth relation and, 245

Dreyfus, Hubert, 6, 114, 221, 296n1, 298n20, 324–325n5

debate with McDowell, 301n35

nonconceptual content and, 124

Driesch, Hans, 140

Durrell, Lawrence, 185

Dwelling, 44, 62, 63, 110, 143, 202

presence and, 229

technology and, 65–70

Earth, 132, 243, 245

Ecology, 140

Economism, 98, 291n4

Eilan, Naomi, 113

Einstein, Albert, 202

Elden, Stuart, 43, 66, 308n14

Eliot, T. S., 267

Empiricism, 213

Encounter, 14, 254–258, 260, 261, 266, 270n4

“End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking, The” (Heidegger), 178

Entrikin, J. Nicholas, 153

Environmentalism, 137, 307n2

Epistemology, 108, 218, 295n39

Epoché, phenomenological, 45–46

Equipmentality (Zeug), 28, 117–118, 121

Equiprimordiality (Gleichursprünglichkeit), 32, 88, 89, 288n51

Event, the (das Ereignis), 3, 45, 153, 259n1

as belonging together of time and space, 19

Dasein and, 201

Spielraum and, 133

subjectivism and, 109

topology and, 39

truth of being and, 93

world as problem and, 29–30, 31, 32

Events, 33, 194, 323n47, 327n28

death and, 191

future and past, 181, 189

having of a life and, 179

of history, 156

memory of, 167

narrative and, 187, 188

self-identity and, 185

unity of a life and, 180, 185, 192

Existence, 14, 36, 116, 178, 263

activity and, 185

being-in-the-world and, 15

body and, 191

having a life and, 184

narrative of life and, 194

projection of possibilities and, 30

Existentiality, 30, 155

of Dasein, 130, 146

prioritization of, 16

unity of topos and, 40

world determined by, 28

Experience, 20, 54, 63, 81, 86, 167

first-person character of, 48

grounding of, 82

having of a life and, 192

knowledge of, 74

mood and, 166

nostalgia and, 172

outer and inner, 132

possibility of, 132, 133

self as subject of, 179, 194

subjectivity and, 300n30

topology as ubiquitous feature of, 4

unity of, 80

of wonder, 255–259, 262, 265

Exteriority, 232, 233, 269n8

Externalism, 184, 208, 221, 222, 321n21, 333n76

Febvre, Lucien, 139, 155, 156

Fell, Joseph, 43, 61, 275n16

Figal, Günter, 279n8

Finitude, 2, 17, 171, 189–196

Flâneur and flânerie, 228–229, 231, 233

Förster-Nietzsche, Elizabeth, 312n40

Foucault, Michel, 66, 67, 142, 308n14

Foundationalism, 222, 300n30

Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (Chamberlain), 141

Fourfold (earth, sky, mortals, gods), 3, 14, 48, 54, 143

coming to appearance and, 139

dwelling and, 110

equiprimordiality and, 89

gathering of, 89, 152–153, 202

geography and, 138

gods and heroes, 62

language and, 33

multiple unity of, 18

spatial and temporal axes of, 207n4

Spielraum and, 133

time and space in, 57

topology and, 39

world as problem and, 30, 31–32

Four Quartets (Eliot), 267

Freedom, 174, 191, 284n6

Fritzsche, Peter, 164, 165, 170, 172

Fukuyama, Francis, 34

Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics, The (Heidegger), 6, 28, 130–131, 132, 290n67, 303n49

on relation of human being to world, 140

Uexküll and, 145

Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 2, 7, 24, 43, 70, 201

on beauty, 257–258, 259

on Being and Time, 273n3

on conversation, 8–9

Davidson’s engagement with, 220–221, 333n75

on experience of art, 257

hermeneutics of, 215

on interplay of transparency and opacity, 261–262

language and, 210, 326n26

ontologized hermeneutics of, 199, 200

on “Origin of the Work of Art,” 99, 330n54

situatedness and, 16

“tradition” concept of, 213

Galileo Galilei, 152, 202

Gathering, 46, 48, 100, 202

Geographical Introduction to History, A (Febvre), 155

Geography, 38, 86, 138, 139

determinism and, 148

“human geography,” 149

humanistic, 152

Nazi politics and, 140–143, 144

Geopolitics, Nazi, 140, 148

Gestell/Ge-stell, 99–101, 103, 104, 105, 106, 110

Given, myth of the, 273, 329n48, 341n21

Globalization, 60

Gods, 60, 62, 282n40

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, 171, 337n14

Ground, 4, 6, 20, 58

being and, 75–76, 78–79, 94

as determining question of philosophy, 73

Leibniz’s principle of sufficient reason and, 74–75, 283n1

origin and, 44

place and, 46

reason and, 74–75

self-grounding, 82

Guattari, Félix, 66, 149

Harries, Karsten, 7

Harrington, Anne, 145

Harvey, David, 65, 66

Haushofer, Karl, 148, 149

Hegel, G. W. F., 102

Heidegger, Martin, works of. See also Being and Time; “Building Dwelling Thinking”; Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics; “Origin of the Work of Art”

“Art and Space” (with Chillida), 152

Contributions to Philosophy, 29, 30, 31, 56–58, 62, 282n40

Country Path Conversations, 46

Introduction to Metaphysics, 73

“The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking,” 178

Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics, 74, 116, 146

“Letter on Humanism,” 131, 154, 290n68

“On the Essence of Ground,” 283–284n2, 284n6, 290n67

Parmenides, 62, 154, 251, 288–289n56

Pathmarks, 97, 284n12

Poetry, Language, Thought, 13

The Principle of Reason, 74–75

“The Question Concerning Technology,” 68

Spiegel interview, 68, 141

“The Thing,” 18, 31, 68, 202

On Time and Being, 57

What Is a Thing?, 25, 56

What Is Called Thinking?, 23, 199

“Why Do I Stay in the Provinces?,” 226–227, 229

Zollikon Seminars, 113

Heidegger’s Topology (Malpas), 1, 5, 51, 63, 66

on appearance of place in/through place, 64

on earlier and later thinking of Heidegger, 69–70

hierarchical dependence in, 53

on place and history, 59

“place of place” in, 56

priority as topic in, 52

responses to, 6

Heimat (homeland), 44, 60, 62–65, 150, 154, 233

Hermeneutic circle, 20

Hermeneutics, 199, 213, 215

Hierarchical dependence, 18, 52, 53, 115, 117, 121

Historicity, 34, 44, 56

Historiography, 139–140, 141, 153

History, 59, 138

of an artwork, 246, 248

end of, 34, 35

geography and, 155

having a life and, 182

nostalgia and, 172

Hitler, Adolf, 274n6

Hölderlin, Friedrich, 24, 97, 98, 106, 144, 291n1

Holism, Davidsonian, 207, 208, 209, 219, 221, 327n33

Holmes, Jonathan, 337n22

Homer, 161, 163

Horizon, 2, 13, 46, 54, 89, 90. See also Boundary

Hoy, David, 215

Human being

as being in place, 63

being in relation to, 99, 105, 110, 146

Dasein as essence of, 16, 17, 26, 139

embodied character of, 197

placed character of, 69, 319n17

projection and, 130–131

there/here (Da) and, 205

Umwelt (“environing world”) and, 137

world and, 140, 156, 157

world-formation and, 128, 305n55

Husserl, Edmund, 45, 49, 139, 266, 307n6

meaning and, 46, 87

on spatiality, 279n8

thesis (thetic) in, 102

transcendental phenomenology of, 73

Identity, 180, 184, 304n50

of artworks, 238

difference and, 280n15

German, 147

nostalgia and, 167, 171

past time and, 58

place-bound, 64

Immortality, 193, 195–196

Indeterminacy, 13, 17, 69

of artwork, 244

geography and, 153

of interpretation, 207, 214

objectivity of artwork and, 248

of presence, 37

Individuals (Strawson), 238

Innerlichkeit (inwardness), 278n44

In Search of Lost Time (Proust), 133

Intelligibility, 79, 215, 255, 259, 263

of light, 254, 264

meaning and, 88

Intention/intentionality, 46, 54, 181, 307–308n6, 338n25

of artworks, 246, 247

meaning and, 248

triangulation and, 212

understanding and, 210

Interpretation, 199, 200, 211, 214

of artwork, 248

radical, 206, 207, 208, 215

threefold structure of, 214–215

topography of, 208

triangulation and, 212

truth and, 218

Intersubjectivity, 117, 120, 122, 215

Introduction to Metaphysics (Heidegger), 73

Intuition, 62, 81, 82, 132, 133

Involvement, 113, 118, 120, 121, 296n1, 299n22

Iridescence (indeterminacy, multiplicity), 17, 49

Juxtaposition, 133

Kant, Immanuel, 2, 6, 8, 25, 49, 70, 113

“Copernican” turn of, 80

geography and, 86

ground and, 73, 74, 79, 82, 83

on limit, 84–85, 287n37

on nostalgia, 167, 313n4

on noumenon, 84–86, 91, 287n40

objectivity and, 80

on self-constitution and the transcendental, 20, 272n30

on space/spatiality, 119, 132–133, 299n23

on subjectivity, 47, 123

transcendental idea in, 81, 285n19

on unity of space, 122

Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics (Heidegger), 74, 116, 146, 285–286n20

Kjellen, Rudolf, 148

Knowledge, 86, 265

empiricist theories of, 213

grounding of, 83, 85

limits of, 83

a priori judgments and, 79–80

transcendental, 81

Landscape, 18, 52, 229, 310n31

Language, 304n50, 330n51. See also Speech

behavior and, 210, 211, 212, 213

Fourfold and, 33

as “house of being,” 131

linguistic turn, 199

as logos, 129, 130

meaning and, 205

play and, 329n45

semantic theory and, 207

truth of sentences and, 218

use of, 211

world/world-formation and, 129, 305n58

Lebensphilosophie, 265

Lebensraum (living space), 140, 148

Lefebvre, Henri, 65–66, 142, 149

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 74, 283n1, 297n15, 299n28

Le Thor seminar, 116, 293n24

“Letter on Humanism” (Heidegger), 131, 154, 290n68

Levinas, Emmanuel, 24, 151, 256–257, 307n1, 312n42

on being, 262–263

on wonder and light, 253–254, 256, 258, 259, 261, 264

Life, human

death connected to, 177, 191, 317n4

end of, 7, 178, 188, 192, 196–197, 318n6

finitude of, 190, 192–196, 322n35

living vs. having a life, 178–180

unity and idea of a life, 180–187

unity of narrative and, 187–189

Limit, 2, 6, 69, 281n35. See also Boundary

as closing-off, 90

death as, 61–62

ground and, 77, 83–84, 89–90, 91

positive and negative senses of, 84–85, 287n36

MacIntyre, Alasdair, 188

Maitland, Jeffrey, 239–240, 241, 244, 249

Malory, Thomas, 23

Marcel, Gabriel, 263, 342n26

Marxism, 139

Massey, Doreen, 65, 66, 153, 312n51

Maull, Otto, 151

McCarthy, Rosaleen, 113

McDowell, John, 301n35

Meaning, 87–88, 293n24, 324n49

externalist conception of, 222

intentionality and, 248, 338n29

interpretation and, 214

language and, 331n64

semantic (truth) theory and, 205, 206

theory of, 209, 328n35

unity of, 88

wonder and, 341n20

Megill, Alan, 164

Melancholia, 161, 162

Memory/remembrance, 37, 163, 167–168, 173

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 116, 171, 263, 297n14, 301n35

Messkirch, village of, 2, 225, 226, 233

Metaphilosophy, 13

Metaphor, 246, 247, 335n2

Metaphysics, 36, 74, 75, 87, 276n28, 317n40

ambiguity of, 277n31

empiricist, 135

end (completion) of, 109

foundationalism and, 222

Heidegger’s critique of, 98

history of, 76–77, 103

Kant and, 79

limits of, 83

meaning and, 324n49

nihilism and, 105, 108

onto-theology and, 78

subjectivism and, 107

Metaphysics (Aristotle), 84, 252

Michelet, Jules, 155–156

Mink, Louis, 188

Modernity, technological, 34, 35, 36, 44, 101. See also Technology

flâneur and, 228–229

materialist ontology and, 76

mode of being of, 69

nihilism of, 97–98, 100

nostalgia and, 163–164, 165, 172

placelessness of, 63, 66, 68

space–time relation and, 59

topology and, 60

transparency and, 232

Mulhall, Stephen, 213–214

Mysticism, 41

Mythophilia, 169, 170, 175

Narrative, unity of, 187–189, 193–194, 321n29

Nazism, 148–149, 150, 156, 157, 313n54

Nazism, Heidegger’s involvement with, 25, 149, 273n3, 274n6, 294n29, 307n1

implications for Heidegger’s philosophy, 307n2, 308–309n15

inadequacy in thinking of place and, 155

Nietzschean “will to power” and, 151

nihilism of modernity and, 98, 106, 291n3

nostalgia and, 164

temporality as preoccupation and, 156

Uexküll and, 140–148, 303n47

Newton, Isaac, 152, 202, 299n28

New Zealand, 3

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 24, 97, 98, 105–106, 107, 304n50

on Apollonian and Dionysian art, 337n17

Descartes and, 108

Heidegger’s lectures on, 151, 311–312n40

as last metaphysician, 109

on nihilism, 109

nostalgia and, 165

Nihilism, 6, 34–35, 100, 311n40

Ge-stell (essence) of technology and, 110

obliteration of place and, 107

place–thesis relation and, 103

subjectivism and, 109

topography of, 97

Noesis, 87

Normativity, 51, 52, 213, 220, 280n19

Nostalgia, 7, 20

discontinuity in, 170–171, 174–175, 316n34

as homesickness, 171–172, 272n27

meaning of, 161–163, 165, 314n8

modernity and, 163–164, 165, 172

mood of, 161, 163, 166–167

mythophilia and, 169, 170, 175

origins of, 161–162, 313n2, 314n6

as pejorative term, 164, 165, 173

philosophy and, 164–165, 173

place and, 167–168

restorative vs. reflective, 169–170, 172

self-identity (autobiographical memory) and, 167–169

temporal nature of, 162, 171, 172, 174–175, 313nn3–4, 315n18

Noumenon/noumena, 84–86, 91, 287n40

Novalis, 165

Nussbaum, Martha, 317n4

Objectivism, 107, 109

Objectivity, 80, 285n19, 299n27

of artwork, 237, 239–250, 334–335n2

Dasein and, 147

ontology and, 334n1

subjectivity interconnected with, 120, 122, 123, 215

truth and, 218

Odyssey, The (Homeric epic), 161, 163

Okrent, Mark, 331n64

Once and Future King, The (White), 23, 273n1

“On the Essence of Ground” (Heidegger), 283–284n2, 284n6, 290n67

On the Several Senses of Being in Aristotle (Brentano), 78

“On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme” (Davidson), 214

On Time and Being (Heidegger), 57

Ontology. See also Difference, ontological

of Aristotle, 78

of artworks, 238, 240–241

Cartesian, 155

death and, 191, 322n34

having of a life and, 179

hermeneutics and, 199, 200

materialist, 75

meaning of being, 199

subjectivism and, 108, 295n39

truth and, 218

Ontotheology, 76, 77, 276n28

Open, The (Agamben), 140

Opening, 2, 87

Openness, 35, 58, 69, 113

Opus postumum (Kant), 85

Organism, 6

“Origin of the Work of Art, The” (Heidegger), 14, 37, 257, 271n12

ambiguity in, 103

Appendix to, 99, 100, 102, 104

art and establishing of world, 106

on clearing of being, 92

Ge-stell (positioning) and, 99–100

on happening of truth, 57, 90

objectivity of artwork and, 241

relation of being to human being in, 146

topological project and, 201–202

on Van Gogh painting of shoes, 248

world as problem and, 29, 30, 31

Ort/Ortschaft (place), 1, 43, 100, 154, 232–233, 292n10

Other/others, 3, 14, 232

Otto, Walter, 62

Ousia (substance), 78, 84, 285n15

Paddock, Troy, 141–142, 152, 308n12

Painter’s Studio, The (Courbet), 337–338n22

Parfit, Derek, 186, 193

Parmenides (Heidegger), 62, 154, 251, 288–289n56

Pathmarks (Heidegger), 97, 284n12

Perception, 119

Phenomenology, 2, 3, 38–39, 66, 221, 308n6

analytic thought and, 279–280n11

artwork as, 246

ontology and, 241

origin of thinking and, 44–45

subjectivity and, 44–56

topology and, 44, 277n38

transcendental, 73

Philebus (Plato), 205

Philipse, Herman, 93, 94

Philosophy, 2, 4, 36, 52, 206, 223

ambiguity of, 277n31

“analytic,” 199, 200, 222

beginning/origin of, 14–15, 33, 251–252, 255–256, 263, 266, 318n5

“continental,” 222

divides in, 220

end of, 34, 266, 318nn5–6

forgetting and, 20

German idealist tradition, 25

history of, 110, 133

life as context for, 14

nostalgia and, 164–165, 173

poetry in relation to, 256, 340n13

return of, 263–267

topological character of, 70

transcendental, 82

wonder and beginning of, 8

Physicalism, 75, 76, 108, 201, 214

Physics (Aristotle), 3, 270n3

Physis (nature), 104–105, 252, 293n21

Place (topos), 1, 20, 204, 267

Aristotelian analysis of, 118, 298n22

complexity of, 49

as focus and origin of thinking, 17

forgetting of, 35

as gathering, 100

geography and, 153

happening of, 35

hermeneutic and, 21

history of being and, 33–35, 59–60

imagination of, 65, 312n51

inside–outside relations and, 2, 269n8, 278n44

iridescence of, 17

multiple character of, 64–65

obliteration of, 107

philosophical significance of, 2

of place, 56

politics and, 154–157

primacy of, 3, 4

“problem of place,” 7

relatedness to, 63, 168

return or homecoming to, 19–20

saying of, 13, 92, 94, 110

social/economic factors and, 66

space in distinction to, 26

spatiality and, 17, 270n2

structure of, 40, 46, 55, 58, 111

subjectivism and, 104–111

as surface and structure, 38–40

thesis and, 102–103, 105, 106–107, 109–111, 293n20

truth and, 216, 219

Turning in Heidegger’s thought and, 25, 36–38

uncanniness of, 151–154, 172, 175

of understanding, 211

unity of, 27, 185

wonder and, 60

world as problem and, 27–33

Place and Experience (Malpas), 1, 49, 51, 52, 63, 306n74

on dependency of human life on place, 64

on Proust and nostalgia, 315n20

Placedness, 19, 49, 64, 69, 267, 318n10

being-in-the-world and, 194

embodied character of human being and, 197

finitude of, 21

objectivity and, 237

subjectivity and, 53

of thinking, 15, 235

understanding as mode of, 324n4

wonder and, 63

Plato, 205, 253, 264, 270n3

chora conception of, 153

on origin of philosophy, 251–252, 254

on wonder and rainbow, 253, 261

Plato’s Sophist (Heidegger), 102, 292n19

Poetry, 41, 106, 238, 246

philosophy in relation to, 256, 340n13

thinking and, 267

wonder and, 255, 256

Poetry, Language, Thought (Heidegger), 13

Politics, reactionary, 137, 140–143

Position, 6, 100, 293n20

Possibility, 74, 318n5

of content, 217, 218

of disclosedness, 216

free play of, 37, 111

ground and, 82

having a life and, 179, 182, 185

of interpretation, 333n75

of language, 212

narrative of life and, 189

projection of, 30–31, 130, 155

understanding and, 204

world and, 181

Poulet, Georges, 166

Pragmatism, 6

Presence/presencing, 91, 105, 111, 228, 290n67

being and, 36–37, 87

coming-to-presence, 14, 47, 110, 121, 249, 339n32

dwelling and, 229

happening of, 35

nearness of, 230, 233

nostalgia and, 164

opening of space and, 59

place and, 37

subjectivism and, 107, 109

Present-at-hand, 107, 117, 123, 155, 214

Pre-Socratics, 33

Principle of Reason, The (Heidegger), 74–75

Projection, 57, 63, 104, 181, 305n65, 319–320n18

Dasein and, 16, 31, 48

forward projection of body, 54–55

narrative and, 188

of possibilities, 30–31, 130, 155

thesis and, 102, 103

unity of, 185

as world-formation, 130

Prolegomena to Any Future Physics (Kant), 84, 86, 288n46

Propositions, 217, 331n64

Proust, Marcel, 133, 172, 238, 314n10, 315n20

“Proust’s Principle,” 64

Questionability, 21, 34, 36, 68, 69, 255

beginning of philosophy and, 33

being and, 15, 37

belief and, 182

finitude and, 17

happening of, 16

of place, 152

“Question Concerning Technology, The” (Heidegger), 68

Quine, W. V. O., 200, 201, 206

Race/racism, 145, 147, 148–149, 303n47

Radl, Emmanuel, 140

Rationalism, 67, 68

Rationality, 67, 68, 188, 199, 212, 326n21. See also Reason

Ratzel, Friedrich, 137, 138, 139, 144, 152, 153

Heimat idea and, 150

Lebensraum idea and, 140, 148

Nazism and, 140–141, 142, 143, 148–149

Rauschenberg, Robert, 246, 247

Reason, 80, 83, 263, 291n4. See also Rationality

ground and, 75, 76, 86, 283n1

limit and, 84, 85

subjectivity and, 82, 285n19

sufficient reason, principle of, 74–75, 283n1

Reduction/reductionism, 21, 53, 196

in accounts of self, 186, 193

of place, 35

of spatiality to temporality, 18

Region, 45, 46

Relativism, 265

Religion, 61–62

Relph, Edward, 6, 44, 65–68, 70, 153

Representation, 107, 109, 132, 185–186, 301–302n37

Rich, Adrienne, 173

Richardson, William, 25

Ricoeur, Paul, 188, 193, 321n30

Rootedness, 98, 141, 143, 225

Rorty, Richard, 325n6

Roux, Wilhelm, 140

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 191, 293n24, 322n35

Schapiro, Meyer, 248, 338n31

Schatzki, Theodore, 43, 281n32

Scheherazade, stories of, 194, 323n42

Scheme–content distinction, 214

Schleiermacher, Friedrich, 62

Schürmann, Reiner, 43

Sciences, 140, 201

Sebald, W. G., 235

Self/self-identity, 3, 167–169, 171, 191

activity in world and, 184–185

death and, 193

having a life and, 180, 182–183, 185–187, 196

recognition of, 14

self and other, 232

Sellars, Wilfrid, 273n34, 329n48, 341n21

Semantic theory, 205

Sentences, 210, 211, 217–220, 331n64, 331n65

Setzen (setting), 101, 102, 292n11

Shakespeare, William, 341n20

Simmel, Georg, 228

Simultaneity, 297–298n15

Situatedness, 261, 341n22

of Dasein, 116–117

hermeneutic, 14, 16, 45, 134

Skepticism, 215, 216, 220, 265, 286n30, 330n56

Sociology, 139

Socrates, 251, 252

Soja, Edward, 228

Space/spatiality, 1, 6, 17, 43, 114, 129–130, 294n34. See also Containment, spatial

agency and, 123

in Being and Time, 114–121

body and, 115–116, 119

cognition and, 113

of Dasein, 116–118

dispersal and, 58, 298n18

equipmentality and, 117

existential, 26–27, 115

interior–exterior dichotomy, 232

“inward” aspect of place (topos) and, 269n8

Newtonian, 119, 299–300n28

nostalgia and, 162

objective, 123, 132

openness and, 113

of perception, 279n8

place in distinction to, 26

priority of temporality over, 57, 281n32

projection and, 131

social/economic factors and, 66

subjective, 122–123

temporality as foundation of, 18, 58, 115, 204, 271n18

time intertwined with, 298n15, 323n47

“timespace,” 17

unity and, 117, 118, 233, 298n18, 300n32

Species nature, 126, 147, 150

Speech, 9, 49, 206, 213, 232. See also Language

Spiel (play, game), 213, 329n45

Spielraum (play-space, leeway), 56, 111, 130, 133, 305n61

Stefanovic, Ingrid, 39

Stimmung (mood), 166, 315–316n25

Stoppard, Tom, 177

Strawson, Peter, 238, 239

Subjectivism, 6, 7, 16, 276n28, 311n40

bodily differentiation in space and, 119

Heidegger’s critique of, 98

“myth of the subjective,” 221

place and, 104–111, 153

social context of activity and, 121

Subjectivity, 26, 155, 277n38

abandonment of, 275n11

being-there as central element in, 262

Dasein and, 147

death and, 191

externalist conception of, 51

as foundation of objectivity, 80

normativity and, 51, 52

objectivity interconnected with, 120, 122, 123, 215

phenomenology and, 44–56

place and, 44

priority of, 52, 53, 55

as self-grounding, 82

structure of being and, 290n67

topos and, 49, 63

transcendental and, 47

Sufficient reason, principle of, 74–75, 283n1

“Summer in Algeria” (Camus), 177

Surface, 4, 38, 52, 277n36

Taminieux, Jacques, 30

Tarski, Alfred, 206, 207

Tasmania, 3

Taylor, Charles, 209

Technology, 34, 36, 65–70. See also Modernity, technological

Ge-stell (essence) of, 99–100, 103, 110

Heidegger’s critique of, 35, 67–68

Teleology, 78, 115, 116–117

Temporality. See Time (temporality)

Text, 9, 238, 335n4

Theory, practice and, 120, 300n29

There/here (Da), 17, 18, 26, 168, 204. See also Dasein

human being and, 205

as topos, 30

unity of, 27

Thesis (position, setting, placing), 104–105, 292–293n19

in Greek and modern senses, 100–103, 293n21, 295n37

place (topos) and, 102, 109–111, 293n20

“Thing, The” (Heidegger), 18, 31, 68, 202

Things, 16, 37

appearance of, 46, 90, 228

disclosedness of, 51, 202

“givenness” of, 260, 341n21

interpretation and, 327n28

language and description of, 212

nonbeing of, 91, 289n65

phenomenology and, 38–39

presence/presencing of, 15, 17, 19, 35, 38, 230–231, 254

questionability of, 33, 34, 36, 255

relatedness to the human, 232

spatiality and, 119, 299n27

surface of, 4

unity of being of, 80

wonder and encounter with, 254, 256, 259

world and, 28, 31

Thinking, 19, 223

of Being, 13

dialogic nature of, 8–9

limit or boundary of, 21

origin of, 13–14, 44–45

placedness of, 64, 235

as questioning, 21

as remembrance, 37

solitary space of, 234

temporality and, 270n2

topological character of, 97

topos of, 222

wonder and, 266

“Three Varieties of Knowledge” (Davidson), 215, 330n56

Time (temporality), 6, 43, 44

backward trajectory of, 23, 273n1

Dasein and, 26–27, 30, 32

ecstatic, 1

as foundation for unity of Dasein, 114

future and past as modalities of, 58

happening of world and, 59

historicity and, 56–60

as horizon of being, 18

life and, 180, 181, 319n15

modernity and, 163–164

nostalgia and, 162, 163–164, 171, 172, 174–175, 313nn3–4, 315n18

originary, 3, 16, 18, 26, 30, 121

space intertwined with, 297–298n15, 323n47

spatiality derived from, 26, 58, 117, 204, 274–275n10

structure of, 54

unity of, 178, 196

Time (temporality), prioritization of, 18, 57, 115, 155, 281n32, 301n34

nostalgia and, 168

timespace idea and, 57

Timespace (Zeitraum), 17, 32, 56–57, 132, 281n32

as structure of place (topos), 58

time-play-space, 130

unity and difference in, 134

Time-space compression, 68

Todtnauberg, Heidegger’s hut at, 1, 226–228, 227, 233, 234

Topography, 43, 45, 52, 70, 215

of Davidson, 205–215

of nihilism, 97

place as key concept, 55

of understanding, 200

Topology, 5, 38, 43, 92, 203

artwork as, 246

geography and, 138

Heidegger’s turn to, 98, 99

life and death in relation to, 7

phenomenology and, 44, 241, 277n38

philosophical, 1, 52

as saying of place, 110

thesis and, 105

unity and, 196, 323n47

wonder and, 8

Topology of being (Typologie des Seyns), 8, 77, 267

Davidson and, 205

Heidegger’s later thinking and, 39, 48, 66, 152

as saying of place of being, 13, 105, 106

Topos. See Place (topos)

Transcendence, 2, 92

abandonment of, 57

Dasein and, 28

transcendental in relation to, 39, 47, 285n19

Transcendental, the, 6, 52, 285n19, 306n72

abandonment of, 39

circularity of, 20, 81, 86

ground and, 74

Heidegger’s move away from, 47, 272–273n33

subjectivity and, 47

topology and, 46–47, 48, 94

unity and, 83

Translation, radical, 206

Transparency, 232, 261–262, 264, 265, 266

Triangulation, 7, 54, 203, 208, 218, 327n32

normativity and, 51–52

sociality and, 212

Trigg, Dylan, 313–314n4, 315n18

Truth, 86, 87, 270n4

as aletheia (unconcealment), 16, 90, 91, 219, 220, 289nn58–59

background of beliefs and, 219–220

belief and, 182, 184

boundary and, 101

clearing as happening of, 3

as concealing/revealing, 129, 261

as correspondence or correctness, 216–217, 331–332n65

disclosedness and, 216, 330n57

happening of, 38, 57, 90, 266

plurality or multiplicity of, 332n68

sentences and, 217–220, 331n65

setting to work of, 29, 30

topos of, 219

Truth theory, 206, 219, 326n24

Tuan, Yi-Fu, 153

Tugendhat, Ernst, 219, 330n57

Turning, in Heidegger’s thought, 25, 36–38, 113, 121, 273n3, 274n7

Turning, of thinking/place (in general), 98, 274n7

Two Great Temples at Paestum, The (Cozens), 242, 242, 336–337n14

Uexküll, Jakob von, 6, 126–128, 153, 302n44, 303n46, 303n49

Heidegger and, 137–138, 140, 144–148, 309n22

racism and anti-Semitism of, 145, 147, 149–150, 303n47, 309–310n23

subjectivism of, 154

Umwelt (“environing world”), 6, 126, 127–128, 137, 147, 303–304n49

Uncanniness, 151–154, 172, 174, 175, 233

Understanding, 139, 184, 199, 202, 258, 330n51

happening of, 16

hermeneutic circle and, 20

linguistic, 205, 207, 210, 328n41

narrative and, 188

placedness and, 324n4

possibility of, 203

theoretical mastery and, 209–210

topography of, 200, 208

truth and, 217

wonder and, 253

Unity, 4, 6, 37, 285n19, 319n14

of being, 32, 33, 78–79, 80, 87, 88, 93

complex, 48, 280n15

of Dasein, 26, 27, 32, 115, 178

of experience, 80

of Fourfold, 18, 31

ground and, 77, 91

of a life, 180–187, 322n34

limit and, 84, 89

of meaning, 88

of narrative, 187–189, 193–194

of place (topos), 40, 49, 185

of space, 122, 300n32

suspicion directed at, 278n42

of temporality, 26, 27, 36, 178, 196

of things, 36, 38

transcendental project and, 81, 83

of world, 28, 29

Utterances, 206, 207, 208, 211, 217

Van Gogh, Vincent, 248, 337n21, 339n31

Vidal de la Blache, Paul, 137–140, 144, 149, 152, 153

Heimat idea and, 150

Nazism and, 141–143

Weber, Max, 67–68, 139

Wesen der Geopolitik, Das [The Essence of Geopolitics] (Maull), 151

What Is a Thing? (Heidegger), 25, 56

What Is Called Thinking? (Heidegger), 23, 199

White, Hayden, 188

White, Kenneth, 225

White, T. H., 23, 273n1

“Why Do I Stay in the Provinces?” (Heidegger), 226–227, 229

Williams, Bernard, 177, 317nn3–4

Wilson, Janelle L., 166, 167, 170

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 210, 329n45, 332n73

Wolff, Janet, 338n29

Wollheim, Richard, 239

Wonder, 8, 14–15, 44, 63, 68

appearance and, 254, 256, 257, 258–259

being and, 262

encounter and, 254–258, 259, 266

light and, 253–254, 256, 258, 259, 261, 264

origin of philosophy and, 251–253, 255, 263, 265, 266

philosophy as return and, 265–267

rainbow associated with, 253, 257, 260, 339n7

strangeness and, 259–260, 263

“Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, The” (Benjamin), 229

World, 3, 6, 132, 140

accessibility to, 217

animals and, 124–129, 145, 302nn38–39, 304n50

earth in opposition to, 243, 245

givenness of, 21, 273n34

happening of, 33, 57, 59

having a life and, 179

human being and, 156, 157

mood and, 166, 167

place and problem of, 27–33

spatiality and, 114, 129–134

species nature and, 150

thesis and, 107

unchanging, 195–196

world-formation, 125, 128–133, 302n38, 305n55

worlding of, 29, 38, 57

Wrathall, Mark, 210–211

Writing, 211

Writing, nostalgia and, 172–173

Young, Julian, 6, 7, 44, 49, 62

on Heimat, 60–62

“problem of place” and, 64

Zollikon Seminars (Heidegger), 113