Editors:
- Offers a comprehensive report on the concept and role of space
- Describes historical changes that have modified the notions of space
- Discusses the relationship between geometry and experience, anthropology, biology, psychology and space
- Discusses the relationship between spatial concepts and natural sciences
- Discusses the relationship between arts and representations of space
Part of the book series: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics (SAPERE, volume 39)
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Space of Life
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Front Matter
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Space of Experience
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Front Matter
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Space of Science
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book focuses on various concepts of space and their historical evolution. In particular, it examines the variations that have modified the notions of place, orientation, distance, vacuum, limit, bound and boundary, form and figure, continuity and contingence, in order to show how spatial characteristics are decisive in a range of contexts: in the determination and comprehension of exteriority; in individuation and identification; in defining the meaning of nature and of the natural sciences; in aesthetical formations and representations; in determining the relationship between experience, behavior and environment; and in the construction of mental and social subjectivity. Accordingly, the book offers a comprehensive review of concepts of space as formulated by Kant, Husserl, Heidegger, Einstein, Heisenberg, Penrose and Thorne, subsequently comparing them to notions developed more recently, in the current age, which Foucault dubbed the age of space. The book is divided into four distinct yet deeply interconnected parts, which explore the space of life, the space of experience, the space of science and the space of the arts.Â
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
Maria Teresa Catena, Felice Masi
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Changing Faces of Space
Editors: Maria Teresa Catena, Felice Masi
Series Title: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66911-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-66910-6Published: 29 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88342-7Published: 06 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-66911-3Published: 11 January 2018
Series ISSN: 2192-6255
Series E-ISSN: 2192-6263
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 327
Topics: Epistemology, Social Anthropology, Philosophical and Historical Foundations of Science