In this lucid and wide-ranging book, Edward S. Casey provides a thorough descriptive treatment of varieties of human memory, including recognising and reminding, reminiscing and commemorating, body memory and place memory. Bringing to light forgotten and repressed aspects of human memory - everyday occurrences as well as unusual instances - this ...
What would the world be like if there were no places? Our lives are so place-oriented that we cannot begin to comprehend sheer placelessness. Indeed, the place we occupy has much to do with what and who we are. Yet, despite the pervasiveness of place in our everyday lives, philosophers have neglected it. "Getting Back into Place" offers a ...
Drawing upon his own experiences of imagining, Edward S. Casey describes the essential forms which imagination assumes in everyday life. In a detailed analysis of the fundamental features of all imaginative experience, Casey shows imagining to be eidetically distinct from perceiving and defines it as a radically autonomous act, involving a ...
In a clear and vivid manner, Edward S. Casey, one of Americas finest thinkers, takes up the great themes of imagination, remembering, perceiving, and place. A brilliant and useful account of basic philosophical problems, which are also major mysteries of the soul. By re-joining spirit and soul, this book is a major contribution to the fields of ...
What happens when we glance around a room? How do we trust what we see in fleeting moments? In "The World at a Glance", Edward S. Casey describes how glancing counts for more of human perception than previously imagined. An entire universe is perceived in a glance, but our quick and uncommitted attention prevents examination of these rapid acts ...
Edward Casey, an Irish Cockney from Canning Town, was no war hero. Yet his account of four years of war service with the Royal Dublin Fusiliers provides an interesting chronicle of personal insecurities, Irish unrest and military tourism.
Offers a philosophical history of the evolving conceptualizations of place and space in Western thought. The text begins with mythological creation stories and the theories of Plato and Aristotle. It then considers modern spatial conceptions in 20th century thought, ending with postmodern theories.
Edward Casey offers a philosophical history of the evolving conceptualizations of place and space in Western thought. Not merely a presentation of the ideas of other philosophers, this text is sensitive to silences, absences and missed opportunities in the complex history of philosophical approaches to space and place. A central theme is the ...
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