num_pages: 432
description: .."". a comprehensive and nuanced account of the role of place in human experience."" -- Word Trade ""In descriptions of unprecedented scope, power, and concision, Casey illuminates brilliantly the vexing question crucial for our What is our place in Nature?"" -- Bruce Wilshire .."". wonderfully insightful... "" -- The Humanistic Psychologist What would the world be like if there were no places? Our lives are so place-oriented that we cannot begin to comprehend sheer ""placelessness."" Despite the pervasiveness of place, for the most part philosophers have neglected it. Here, Casey articulates a nuanced philosophical exploration of the pervasiveness of place in our everyday lives.
language: English
title: Getting Back Into Place: Toward a Renewed Understanding of the Place-World
titlecomplete: Getting Back Into Place: Toward a Renewed Understanding of the Place-World (Studies in Continental Thought)
genres: Anthropology, Theory, Geography, Academic, Philosophy, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 61
publisher: Indiana University Press