Possibilities of Place in Continental Thought

Jussi Palmusaari is Lecturer in French and European Politics, King’s College London, UK. Nicolas Schneider is Research Fellow at Leuphana University Lüneburg and Associate Researcher at Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, Germany.

Introduction: On the use of place
Jussi Palmusaari and Nicolas Schneider

PART I. CRITICAL READINGS OF PLACE
1. ‘Speaking from’: Loci of Enunciation in the Geopolitics of Knowledge
Marie-Louise Krogh and Lucie K. Mercier

2. Leibniz’s Conception of Place Against Casey’s Critique
Stephen Howard

3. Theory of the Nonplace
Bruno Bosteels

4. Topologies of Judgement: Arendt, Schürmann, and Shell on the Politics of Kantian sensus communis
Nicolas Schneider

PART II. THEORIZING POLITICS AND HISTORY WITH PLACE
5. Places and Space-Times of Slave Resistance: From the Saint John Suicides to the Nanny Town Maroons (1600–1800)
Elsa Dorlin

6. Places of History: Politics and Time
Sophie Wahnich

7. Places of Passage: Guy Debord on the Spectacular Organization of Social Space
Tom Bunyard

8. Place and Metaphor: Althusser’s Topology
Jussi Palmusaari

9. Around and Through: The Envelope and the Outside
Bernard Aspe

PART III. (DIS)PLACING ONTOLOGIES
10. Atopos: Hermeneutics and the Out-Of-Place of Understanding
Donatella Di Cesare

11. Phenomenology of Location and Localization: Emergent Places and Immersive Space
Martin Nitsche

12. Roomily-Durational Openness: The Place of Creative Becoming
Tina Röck

13. A Place Free from and for Law: Franz von Baader on the Redemption of Time and Space
Mårten Björk

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