Situatedness and Place
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Spatio-temporal Contingency of Human Life
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Beschreibung
This book explores the ways in which the spatio-temporal contingency of human life is being conceived in different fields of research. Specifically, it looks at the relationship between the situatedness of human life, the situation or place in which human life is supposed to be situated, and the dimensions of space and time in which both situation and place are usually themselves supposed to be situated.
Over the last two or three decades, the spatio-temporal contingency of human life has become an important topic of research in a broad range of different disciplines including the social sciences, the cultural sciences, the cognitive sciences, and philosophy. However, this research topic is referred to in quite different ways: while some researchers refer to it in terms of “situation”, emphasizing the “situatedness” of human experience and action, others refer to it in terms of “place”, emphasizing the “power of place” and advocating a “topological” or “topographical turn” in thecontext of a larger “spatial turn”. Interdisciplinary exchange is so far hampered by the fact that the notions referred to and the relationships between them are usually not sufficiently questioned. This book addresses these issues by bringing together contributions on the spatio-temporal contingency of human life from different fields of research.Is the only book that addresses this much debated issue from different perspectives, including phenomenology, hermeneutics, and the cognitive sciences
Promotes critical reflection and stimulates interdisciplinary discussion and exchange
Advances understanding of the situatedness and implacement of experience and action
Is the only book that addresses this much debated issue from different perspectives, including phenomenology, hermeneutics, and the cognitive sciences Promotes critical reflection and stimulates interdisciplinary discussion and exchange Advances understanding of the situatedness and implacement of experience and action
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Thomas Hünefeldt
Themen in »Situatedness and Place«
Cognitive Science Embodiment of Space Extrapersonal Space Hermeneutics Peripersonal Space Philosophy of Place Situated Cognition Spatio-temporal Contingency Topological Turn Virtual Reality