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45Smooth Spaces and Rough-Edged Places: The Hidden History of PlaceReview of Metaphysics 51 (2): 267-296. 1997.I BEGIN WITH A PUZZLE of sorts. Time is one; space is two—at least two. Time comes always already unified, one time. Thus we say “What time is it now?” and not “Which time is it now?” We do not ask, “What space is it?” Yet we might ask: “Which space are we in?”. Any supposed symmetry of time and space is skewed from the start. If time is self-consolidating—constantly gathering itself together in coherent units such as years or hours or semesters or seasons— space is self-proliferating. Take, for…Read more
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41Imagining, Second Edition: A Phenomenological StudyIndiana University Press. 2000.Imagining A Phenomenological Study Second Edition Edward S. Casey A classic firsthand account of the lived character of imaginative experience. "This scrupulous, lucid study is destined to become a touchstone for all future writings on imagination." —Library Journal "Casey’s work is doubly valuable—for its major substantive contribution to our understanding of a significant mental activity, as well as for its exemplary presentation of the method of phenomenological analysis." —Contemporary Psych…Read more
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38The Ethics of the Face to Face Encounter: Schroeder, Levinas, and the GlanceThe Pluralist 1 (1). 2006.
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38The World at a GlanceIndiana University Press. 2007.What happens when we glance around a room? How do we trust what we see in fleeting moments? In The World at a Glance, Edward S. Casey describes how glancing counts for more of human perception than previously imagined. An entire universe is perceived in a glance, but our quick and uncommitted attention prevents examination of these rapid acts and processes. While breaking down this paradox, Casey surveys the glance as an essential way by which we acquaint ourselves with the world. This experient…Read more
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36Sym-phenomenologizing: Talking shop (review)Human Studies 20 (2): 169-180. 1997.In this essay I discuss the idea of deploying workshops in phenomenology -- i.e., teaching the discipline by practising it. I focus on the model proposed by Herbert Spiegelberg, the first person to give systematic attention to this idea and the first to institutionalize it over a period of several years. Drawing on my experience in several of the workshops he led at Washington University, St. Louis, I detail the method he recommended in preparation for a workshop I ten led at the inaugural meeti…Read more
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36Toward a phenomenology of imaginationJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 5 (1): 3-19. 1974.
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33The Fate of Place: A Philosophical HistoryUniversity of California Press. 1997.In this imaginative and comprehensive study, Edward Casey, one of the most incisive interpreters of the Continental philosophical tradition, offers a philosophical history of the evolving conceptualizations of place and space in Western thought. Not merely a presentation of the ideas of other philosophers, _The Fate of Place_ is acutely sensitive to silences, absences, and missed opportunities in the complex history of philosophical approaches to space and place. A central theme is the increasin…Read more
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325 The Edge (s) of Landscape: A Study in LiminologyIn Jeff Malpas (ed.), The Place of Landscape: Concepts, Contexts, Studies, Mit Press. pp. 91. 2011.
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31Sharon Anderson-Gold, Unnecessary Evil. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2000, 138 pp.(Index). ISBN 0-7914-4820-7, $16.95 (Pb). Filippo Aureli and Frans BM De Waal, eds., Natural Conflict Resolution. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2000, 409 pp.(Index). ISBN 0-520-22346-2, $24.95 (Pb) (review)Journal of Value Inquiry 35 587-590. 2001.
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30Freud’s Theory of Reality: A Critical AccountReview of Metaphysics 25 (4). 1972.Yet such a contrast fails to provide an adequate account of the full scope of either philosophy or psychoanalysis. On the one hand, philosophical inquiry is not wholly pre-empted by the question of reality; it may also extend into the realm of phantasy, as can be seen in Plato's effort to determine the epistemological value of eikasia or in Husserl's consideration of Phantasie as a basis of insight into essences. On the other hand, psychoanalysts are as concerned about reality as they are about …Read more
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29Visibilizing the Invisible in PaintingChiasmi International 19 239-253. 2017.I write here about how the visible and the invisible intertwine in painting: in theory and in praxis – primarily the praxis of my own painting. Philosophers are rarely asked to discuss, much less to show in public, what they do avocationally rather than professionally. I was drawn to the invitation of the Merleau-Ponty Circle to exhibit my painting and to talk about what I do when I am not writing or teaching philosophy. It has offered a rare chance to catch up with myself – with the painter in …Read more
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29The Image/Sign Relation in Husserl and FreudReview of Metaphysics 30 (2). 1976.EVER SINCE Plato declared imagining to be mere pseudo- or shadow-knowing—a form of eikasia, the lowest species of mental activity—Western philosophers have striven to put imagination in its place: a strictly subordinate place. With the exception of isolated figures such as Vico, Collingwood, and Bachelard, philosophers have denounced imagining for its digressiveness and excoriated it for its evasiveness, though sometimes surreptitiously admiring it for these very qualities. At the same time, and…Read more
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28The World at a GlanceIn Professor Fred Evans, Fred Evans, Leonard Lawlor & Professor Leonard Lawlor (eds.), Chiasms: Merleau-Ponty's Notion of Flesh, Suny Press. pp. 147-164. 2000.What happens when we glance around a room? How do we trust what we see in fleeting moments? In The World at a Glance, Edward S. Casey describes how glancing counts for more of human perception than previously imagined. An entire universe is perceived in a glance, but our quick and uncommitted attention prevents examination of these rapid acts and processes. While breaking down this paradox, Casey surveys the glance as an essential way by which we acquaint ourselves with the world. This experient…Read more
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28Remembering, Second Edition: A Phenomenological StudyIndiana University Press. 2000.Remembering A Phenomenological Study Second Edition Edward S. Casey A pioneering investigation of the multiple ways of remembering and the difference that memory makes in our daily lives. A Choice Outstanding Academic Book "An excellent book that provides an in-depth phenomenological and philosophical study of memory." —Choice "... a stunning revelation of the pervasiveness of memory in our lives." —Contemporary Psychology "[Remembering] presents a study of remembering that is fondly attentive t…Read more
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28Presence and Absence: Scope and LimitsReview of Metaphysics 35 (3). 1982.THESE are difficult days in which to philosophize, and not only for institutional, historical, or political reasons. Nor is it a matter mainly of a disconcertingly eclectic pluralism of possible ways of doing philosophy; this has been a problem, or at least a temptation, ever since the disciples of Plato clustered into competing sects. More alarming, and more challenging, is the fact that the very idea of thinking and writing reflectively in various ways hitherto acknowledged by a broad consensu…Read more
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27Prologue: Brief Ruminations on Borders, Boundaries, and Border WallsJournal of Chinese Philosophy 44 (1-2): 90-93. 2017.
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27On Speaking Matter, Boundary, and Place: Reflections on John McCumber's On Philosophy: Notes from a CrisisPhilosophy Today 58 (4): 713-727. 2014.This review of On Philosophy first pursues the question of just what “the speaking of matter” means: is it a matter of the sheer production of sound or “voice” or is it a matter of articulate “speech”? From there I explore the question of “finding your voice” with reference to the “new feminist materialism” and the work of Susan Griffin. The second part of this review concerns the status of border and boundary in McCumber’s powerful notion of “ousiodic structure,” suggesting that beyond the stri…Read more
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25Phenomenology at the Edge of its OrbitJournal of Chinese Philosophy 42 (1-2): 213-220. 2015.Although cultures far away and with other languages and customs are felt to be exotic by many in one s own culture, all cultures recognize the importance of a consistent bodily praxis as a basis for ethical behavior. I show that thinkers as diverse as Aristotle, Dewey, James, Peirce, Husserl, and Merleau-Ponty all acknowledge this habitual-bodily basis as well as its deeply social character. So does Confucius, even if he emphasizes ceremonial aspects more than Aristotle, the American pragmatists…Read more
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22Opening Out the Boundaries: Homage to the Journal of Chinese PhilosophyJournal of Chinese Philosophy 40 (S1): 12-16. 2013.“Borders” are impermeable limits designed to stop the flow of human beings as well as ideas across them, whereas “boundaries” are permeable enclosure that permit and often encourage movement through limits. I develop the differences between these two forms of edge with a series of historical and geographical examples. I conclude that the Journal of Chinese Philosophy is a sterling instance of a boundary whose entire being has consisted in facilitating the two-way flow of concepts and traditions …Read more
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22Remembering, Second Edition: A Phenomenological StudyIndiana University Press. 2009.Remembering A Phenomenological Study Second Edition Edward S. Casey A pioneering investigation of the multiple ways of remembering and the difference that memory makes in our daily lives. A Choice Outstanding Academic Book "An excellent book that provides an in-depth phenomenological and philosophical study of memory." —Choice "... a stunning revelation of the pervasiveness of memory in our lives." —Contemporary Psychology "[Remembering] presents a study of remembering that is fondly attentive t…Read more
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22The image/sign relation in Husserl and FreudIn Ronald Bruzina & Bruce W. Wilshire (eds.), Review of Metaphysics, Martinus Nijhoff. pp. 120--143. 1978.
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20David Carr on History, Time, and PlaceHuman Studies 29 (4): 445-462. 2006.This essay begins by situating the work of David Carr in relation to the reception of phenomenology in the United States. It addresses Carr's early contributions to the philosophy of history, especially as this topic emerges in Husserl's middle and later writings. The idea of point of view as this emerges in Carr's own writings on history is examined, with special attention to differences between its spatial and temporal instantiations. Carr's emphasis on the primacy of temporality in human expe…Read more
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