Rethinking Dwelling

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Heidegger, Place, Architecture

By Distinguished Professor Jeff Malpas

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Rethinking Dwelling by Distinguished Professor Jeff Malpas explores the philosophical concept of dwelling, weaving together insights from philosophy, architecture, and psychology. The book examines how our environments and spaces shape human experience, identity, and existence. Malpas delves into the subtle interplay between place and being, challenging conventional understandings and offering a profound re-evaluation of how we inhabit the world.
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You might enjoy this book if you're intrigued by the philosophical and psychological aspects of space and place, particularly regarding human dwelling. It explores the relationship between our environments and our sense of being, offering profound insights into how spaces shape our identities and experiences.

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Over the last twenty years, Jeff Malpas’ research has involved his engagement with architects and other academics around the issues of place, architecture, and landscape, particularly the way these practitioners have used the work of Martin Heidegger.

In Rethinking Dwelling, Malpas’ primary focus is to rethink these issues in a way that is directly informed by an understanding of place and the human relation to it. With essays on a range of architectural and design concerns, as well as engaging with other thinkers, the book covers topics including textuality in architecture, contemporary high-rise construction, the significance of the line, the relation between building and memory, and the idea of authenticity in architecture.

This book departs from the traditional phenomenological focus and provides students and scholars with a new ontological assessment of landscape and architecture. As such, it may also be used in other ‘spatial’ or ‘topographic’ disciplines including geography, sociology, anthropology, and art, in which the ‘spatial turn’ has been so important.

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Rethinking Dwelling by Jeff Malpas has been praised for its fresh insights into well-explored themes, such as being-in-place and the dynamics between individuals and their environments. The book is noted for its clear explanation of complex ideas and phenomena like dwelling, identity, and displacement. It meticulously examines Martin Heidegger’s work on dwelling and architecture, correcting misinterpretations and bringing new meanings to light, and is hailed as a thought-provoking treatise valuable to both philosophers and architects engaged in architectural discourse.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781350253148

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 23 February 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic

Illustration: 20 bw illus

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 232.0mm

Weight: 360g

Pages: 256

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Arts & Culture Distinguished Professor Jeff Malpas Non-Fiction Philosophy & Psychology Philosophy & Stoicism

About the Author

Jeff Malpas is Distinguished Professor at the University of Tasmania, Australia. His books include The Intelligence of Place: Topographies and Poetics (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Philosophy and The City: Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Perspectives (2019).