Place, Space and Hermeneutics
Bruce B. Janz
Mar 2017 · Contributions to Hermeneutics Book 5 · Springer
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This book analyzes the hermeneutics of place, raising questions about central issues such as textuality, dialogue, and play. It discusses the central figures in the development of hermeneutics and place, and surveys disciplines and areas in which a hermeneutic approach to place has been fruitful. It covers the range of philosophical hermeneutic theory, both within philosophy itself as well as from other disciplines. In doing so, the volume reflects the state of theorization on these issues, and also looks forward to the implications and opportunities that exist. Philosophical hermeneutics has fundamentally altered philosophy’s approach to place. Issues such as how we dwell in place, how place is imagined, created, preserved, and lost, and how philosophy itself exists in place have become central. While there is much research applying hermeneutics to place, there is little which both reflects on that heritage and critically analyzes a hermeneutic approach to place. This book fills thatvoid by offering a sustained analysis of the central elements, major figures, and disciplinary applications of hermeneutics and place.
About the author
Bruce Janz is Professor of Humanities in the Department of Philosophy, Director of the Center for Humanities and Digital Research, and a graduate faculty member in the Texts and Technologies Ph.D. program at the University of Central Florida. He works in contemporary European and African philosophy, as well as in cultural theory, digital humanities, and environmental thought. He has researched and taught in Canada, the US, Kenya, and South Africa.
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