Introduction: 1. Philosophy, literature, topography Heidegger and Hardy 2. Face to face: faces, places and ethics in Plato 3. Laying down the law in literature: Kleist 4. Sam Wellers valentine: Dickens 5. Temporal topographies: Tennyson's tears 6. Naming, doing, placing: Hopkins 7. Nietzsche in Basel: changing places in Thus Spoke Zarathustra 8. Ideology and topography: Faulkner 9. Slipping vaulting crossing: Heidegger 10. The ethics of topography: Stevens 11. Derrida's topographies 12. Border crossings, translating theory Ruth Notes Index.