Place and Space: Perspectives on Ground and Groundedness

February 10, 2017 - February 11, 2017
Department of Philosophy, DePaul University

Chicago
United States

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Speakers:

Casey Edward
State University of New York, Stony Brook
Steeves Peter
DePaul University

Organisers:

Gammage Jennifer
DePaul University
I?ik Kemal
(unaffiliated)
Silverbloom Rachel
DePaul University
Froese Ryan
DePaul University

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Since Plato conceptualized chora as the keystone of cosmological existence, the discussions pertaining to place and space have been the part and parcel of philosophy. While discussions pertaining to place and vacuum/void played a vital role in antiquity and the scholastic tradition, modern philosophy took up the notion of ground in the wake of Newtonian physics. The 19th and 20th centuries saw Nietzschean and phenomenological thought open up a new way of accessing place and space  through discussions pertaining to world, earth, origin, beginning, lifeworld, limit, and horizon, along with the configuration of certain landscapes, e.g., forest, city, desert, and sea. More recently, space and place have become even more relevant for political, ecological, and feminist discourses, presenting a way in which the concepts of border, territory, environment, homeland, or sexual difference can be elaborated. This conference aims to bring together various perspectives regarding place and space from the philosophical viewpoint of ontology, phenomenology, geography, politics, ecology, feminism, and aesthetics. 

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