Possibilities of Place in Continental Thought

Jussi Palmusaari is a writer, translator and teacher based in London, UK. He specializes in political philosophy, Marxism and critical theory.Nicolas Schneider is Research Fellow at Leuphana University Lüneburg and Associate Researcher at Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, Germany.

• Introduction: On the use of placeJussi Palmusaari and Nicolas SchneiderPART I. CRITICAL READINGS OF PLACE1. ‘Speaking from’: Loci of Enunciation in the Geopolitics of KnowledgeMarie-Louise Krogh and Lucie K. Mercier2. Leibniz’s Conception of Place Against Casey’s CritiqueStephen Howard3. Theory of the NonplaceBruno Bosteels4. Topologies of Judgement: Arendt, Schürmann, and Shell on the Politics of Kantian sensus communisNicolas SchneiderPART II. THEORIZING POLITICS AND HISTORY WITH PLACE5. Places and Space-Times of Slave Resistance: From the Saint John Suicides to the Nanny Town Maroons (1600–1800)Elsa Dorlin6. Places of History: Politics and TimeSophie Wahnich7. Places of Passage: Guy Debord on the Spectacular Organization of Social SpaceTom Bunyard8. Place and Metaphor: Althusser’s TopologyJussi Palmusaari9. Around and Through: The Envelope and the OutsideBernard AspePART III. (DIS)PLACING ONTOLOGIES10. Atopos: Hermeneutics and the Out-Of-Place of UnderstandingDonatella Di Cesare11. Phenomenology of Location and Localization: Emergent Places and Immersive SpaceMartin Nitsche12. Roomily-Durational Openness: The Place of Creative BecomingTina Röck13. A Place Free from and for Law: Franz von Baader on the Redemption of Time and SpaceMårten BjörkContributorsBibliographyNotes

This volume marks an exciting step forward in asserting place as a specific mode and medium of conceptual inquiry. Far more than a designated site in which events happen and meanings accrue, place occasions the very possibility and process of thought. In this, the volume is acutely sensitive to the ways that place ‘moves’ – refusing singular definitions, offering new ways of thinking critically and creatively.