each case comes to pass in a loss of first principles and origins and, simultaneously, as an opening to conceptual figurations yet to come. The discussion engages such main historical figures as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Kant, and indirectly Husserl, as well as contemporary European and American Continental thought. Editorial Reviews About the Author Alejandro A. Vallega was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1964. He is Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy at California State University, Stanislaus, and co-editor of A Companion to Heidegger?s Contributions to Philosophy (2001). With a very interesting theory about "Thinking on Exilic Grounds" Vallega shows some perspectives and problems in Heideggers thoughts. While this is inspiring, this book doesn't really give you any broad overview of Heideggers thoughts on space. It focusses mostly on Sein und Zeit, and on the reason why Heidegger DOESN'T write much about space in that work. Rather I had hoped for an investigation and explanation of Heideggers later works, as these explicitely focusses on the philosophy of space. For example "Art and Space" and "Building Dwelling Thinking". Such later works are treated in only 20 pages! And again the words "exilic grounds" appear several times on each pages, as have they done all the way through the book. The interpretation somehow gets ahead of the explanation, I fell. So this book may offer an interesting point of view concerning space, in relation to Heidegger, but isn't an introduction to Heideggers philosophy of space. A work like Strkers "Investigations in Philosophy of Space" is