Place and Space: Perspectives on Ground and Groundedness
Chicago
United States
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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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