Edward S. Casey is Leading Professor of Philosophy at SUNY, Stony Brook, where he has been chair of the department during most of the last decade. His early writings concerned imagination and memory, and in the 1990s he turned to the question of place in a series of books on this subject: Getting Back into Place, The Fate of Place, and Representing Place in Landscape Paintings and Maps. His effort has been to bring this neglected topic to a new level of rigorous description, and in particular to show the intimate ties between place and bodily experience. An exploration of contemporary painters is soon to appear: Earth-Mapping: Concerning Artists Who Map the Landscape. Still more recently, a study entitled The World at a Glance has been completed. New forays concern the edge and human feeling. Link to Paper Abstract; Link to Homepage

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