Mapping the Present: Heidegger, Foucault and the Project of a Spatial History

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Space and History in Being and Time -- Ontology, History and Time -- The Space of Dasein and Equipment -- Reading Kant Phenomenologically -- Towards Hölderlin and Nietzsche -- Chapter Two: In the Shadow of Nazism: Reading Hölderlin and Nietzsche -- Einführung: Introduction -- I: Hölderlin -- The Germania and Rhine Hymns -- The Ister Hymn -- II: Nietzsche -- Returning to the Augenblick -- Space and the Body -- Excursus: The Beiträge -- Power and Perspectivism -- Chapter Three: Art, Technology, Place and the Political -- The Origin of the Work of Art -- Re-thinking the & -- #928 -- ó& -- #955 -- & -- #962 -- -- The Question of Technology -- Dwelling Poetically at the Place of the Fourfold -- Platial Descriptions -- Art and Space -- Chapter Four: Towards a Spatial History -- I: A History of Limits -- Archaeology -- Genealogy -- II: Mapping the Present -- Chapter Five: The Spaces of Power -- I: Re-placing Madness and Civilisation -- Leprosy, Water and Madness -- Confinement and Correction -- Observing and Classifying -- The Birth of Moral Imprisonment -- II: Not Through Bentham's Eyes -- A Torturous Sediment -- The Army, Schools, Monasteries, Factories -- The Spaces of Medicine -- The Panopticon and Panopticism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Y.

"In a late interview, Foucault, suggested that Heidegger was for him the 'essential philosopher.' Taking this claim seriously, Mapping the Present assesses the relationship between these two thinkers, particularly on the issue of space and history. It suggests that space and history need to be rethought, and combined as a spatial history, rather than as a history of space. In other words, space should become not merely an object of analysis, but a tool of analysis. The first half of the book concentrates on Heidegger: from the early occlusion of space, through the politically charged readings of Nietzsche and Holderlin, to the later work on art, technology and the polis which accord equal status to issues of spatiality. Foucault's work is then rethought in the light of the analysis of Heidegger, and the project of a spatial history established through re-readings of his works on madness and discipline."--Bloomsbury Publishing