Abstract
ANGELAKI journal of the theoretical humanities volume 9 number 2 august 2004 n retracing the “fate of place” in the history of IWestern thought, Edward Casey spares few words for the Romantics. Of the German Natur- philosophen he observes only that in their pre- occupation with diachronic processes of development, “they neglected to pay any careful attention at all to how the body relates to space,” and hence to place. While there is certainly some truth in this...
ANGELAKI journal of the theoretical humanities volume 9 number 2 august 2004 n retracing the “fate of place” in the history of IWestern thought, Edward Casey spares few words for the Romantics. Of the German Natur- philosophen he observes only that in their pre- occupation with diachronic processes of development, “they neglected to pay any careful attention at all to how the body relates to space,” and hence to place. While there is certainly some truth in this assessment, the reconceptual- ization of nature as a dynamic, self-generative unity-in-diversity, of which humans were inte- grally a part, effected by Romantic natural phi- losophy did in fact imply a recognition of the formative role of place, as well as time, in kate rigby conditioning human existence. An appreciation of the power of place to affect human sensibili- ties and dispositions, which follows from this philosophical reanimation of nature and renatu- perspectives on place in ralization of humanity, can also be traced in the literature of the Romantic period. In this regard, european romanticism European Romanticism can be seen to have prefigured the insights of those late twentieth- century phenomenologists of place who are con- “reinhabitation,” it is surely because any
Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities – Taylor & Francis
Published: Aug 1, 2004
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