The Changing Faces of Space

The Changing Faces of Space

Catena, Maria Teresa
Masi, Felice

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This book focuses on notions of space and their historical evolution. It offers a comprehensive review of concepts of space as formulated by thinkers from Kant to Husserl, Heidegger and Einstein, and compares them to ones developed in our current age, defined by Foucault as the age of space. In particular, it offers a spatial representation of variations that have modified the notions of place, orientation, distance, vacuum, limit, bound and boundary, form and figure, continuity and contingence, in order to demonstrate the decisive role of spatial characteristics in various contexts: in the determination and comprehension of exteriority; in individuation and identification; in the definition of meaning of nature and of natural science; in aesthetical formations and representations; in determining the interrelations between experience, behavior, and ambient; and in the construction of psychic and social subjectivity. The book is divided into four distinct yet deeply intertwined parts, which respectively address the space of life, the space of experience, the space of science, and the space of the arts.

  • ISBN: 978-3-319-66910-6
  • Editorial: Springer
  • Encuadernacion: Cartoné
  • Fecha Publicación: 10/02/2018
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés