Getting Back into Place, Second Edition
- 512 pages
- 18 hours of reading
Enlarged edition of a classic work on the significance of place
Edward Casey Books
Edward Casey's work delves into the philosophical depths, exploring themes of space and place, perception, and ethics. His writing engages with artistic forms like landscape painting and maps, analyzing them as modes of representation and perception. Casey's essays probe the nature of edges and the role of feeling and emotion, with particular attention to the glance as a key aspect of perception. His approach offers profound insights into how we apprehend the world around us and perceive others.
The World at a Glance
- 498 pages
- 18 hours of reading
What happens when we glance around a room? How do we trust what we see in fleeting moments? 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.
Edward Casey, an Irish Cockney from Canning Town, was no war hero. Yet his account of four years of war service with the Royal Dublin Fusiliers provides an interesting chronicle of personal insecurities, Irish unrest and military tourism.
Plants in Place is a collaborative study of vegetal phenomenology at the intersection of Edward S. Casey’s phenomenology of place and Michael Marder’s plant-thinking.