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Jeff Malpas

University of Tasmania, Philosophy, Architecture, Geography, Distinguished Professor

La Trobe University, Philosophy, Department Member

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Books by Jeff Malpas

The Centrality of Philosophical Hermeneutics

International Institute for Hermeneutics (Analecta Hermeneutica 14.2), also at https://www.iih-hermeneutics.org/_files/ugd/f67e0f_44aa8719e7c446219be2edeaa42b2a67.pdf

Originally written as a Commencement address for the International Institute for Hermeneutics. Di... more Originally written as a Commencement address for the International Institute for Hermeneutics. Discusses the importance of philosophical hermeneutics despite its relative neglect in much contemporary English-language philosophy. Focuses on the idea of indeterminacy as a key hermeneutical concept as well as connecting the hermeneutic to the topological.

Rethinking Dwelling Final MS

Rethinking Dwelling, 2021

Draft ms of new book on on Heidegger, place, and architecture. In two parts: Part 1 on the questi... more

Brightness Complete Manuscript

In the Brightness of Place: topological thinking in and after Heidegger

Draft ms for a new volume that will (hopefully) be appearing with SUNY - topological thinking in ... more

EARTHSCAPE by Chan-fai Cheung with a foreword by Elmar Holenstein and two essays

by cheung chan fai, Jeff Malpas, and Kwok-ying Lau

EARTHSCAPE, 2013

Why Philosophy?

by Paolo Diego Bubbio and Jeff Malpas

Do we really need philosophy? The present collection of jargon-free essays aims at answering the ... more Do we really need philosophy? The present collection of jargon-free essays aims at answering the question of why philosophy matters. Each essay considers the central question (Why Philosophy?) from different angles: the unavoidability of doing philosophy, the practical consequences of philosophy, philosophy as a therapy for the whole person, the benefits of philosophy for improving public policy, etc.

Jeff's papers now at jeffmalpas com

I now have all my papers, with a searchable index, available on my personal website at jeffmalpas... more

Death and philosophy

Preface "Call no man happy until he is dead" wrote unhappy Aeschylus. "Death is nothing" opined t... more

Place and Experience

Heidegger's Topology

Davidson's Holism (orig. Donald Davidson and the Mirror of Meaning)

Although extensively revised during 2002, and again in 2010, the core of this book, originally pu... more Although extensively revised during 2002, and again in 2010, the core of this book, originally published as Donald Davidson and the Mirror of Meaning, was written between 1987 and 1991. Davidson read the original typescript after attending the NEH seminar on 'Heidegger and Davidson: Critics of Cartesianism' organized by Hubert Dreyfus at Santa Cruz in 1990, sending me a faxed message shortly after the seminar that read: 'Am chagrined to have to admit that I have only just read your book. Would have learned more by staying home and reading it than by attending the recent seminar. Do you have a publisher?' As it happened, the book had at that stage already been accepted for publication by Cambridge University Press.

Heidegger and the Thinking of Place

Papers by Jeff Malpas

1. Introduction:Transcendental Heidegger

Stanford University Press eBooks, Mar 21, 2007

Place, past, and person

Routledge eBooks, Feb 19, 2018

Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jun 3, 2021

Donald Davidson

Hybris, 2008

Politics, Sociology, and the “Inevitability” of Failure

Routledge eBooks, Jan 16, 2023

Philosophy’s Nostalgia

The MIT Press eBooks, Jan 27, 2012

Windows through a window

Place, space, and capital: The landscapes of Patrick Keiller

Environment And Planning D: Society And Space, Jul 26, 2016

Place and Experience: A Philosophical Topography

The Philosophical Review, Oct 1, 2001

The Centrality of Philosophical Hermeneutics

International Institute for Hermeneutics (Analecta Hermeneutica 14.2), also at https://www.iih-hermeneutics.org/_files/ugd/f67e0f_44aa8719e7c446219be2edeaa42b2a67.pdf

Originally written as a Commencement address for the International Institute for Hermeneutics. Di... more Originally written as a Commencement address for the International Institute for Hermeneutics. Discusses the importance of philosophical hermeneutics despite its relative neglect in much contemporary English-language philosophy. Focuses on the idea of indeterminacy as a key hermeneutical concept as well as connecting the hermeneutic to the topological.

Rethinking Dwelling Final MS

Rethinking Dwelling, 2021

Draft ms of new book on on Heidegger, place, and architecture. In two parts: Part 1 on the questi... more

Brightness Complete Manuscript

In the Brightness of Place: topological thinking in and after Heidegger

Draft ms for a new volume that will (hopefully) be appearing with SUNY - topological thinking in ... more

EARTHSCAPE by Chan-fai Cheung with a foreword by Elmar Holenstein and two essays

by cheung chan fai, Jeff Malpas, and Kwok-ying Lau

EARTHSCAPE, 2013

Why Philosophy?

by Paolo Diego Bubbio and Jeff Malpas

Do we really need philosophy? The present collection of jargon-free essays aims at answering the ... more Do we really need philosophy? The present collection of jargon-free essays aims at answering the question of why philosophy matters. Each essay considers the central question (Why Philosophy?) from different angles: the unavoidability of doing philosophy, the practical consequences of philosophy, philosophy as a therapy for the whole person, the benefits of philosophy for improving public policy, etc.

Jeff's papers now at jeffmalpas com

I now have all my papers, with a searchable index, available on my personal website at jeffmalpas... more

Death and philosophy

Preface "Call no man happy until he is dead" wrote unhappy Aeschylus. "Death is nothing" opined t... more

Place and Experience

Heidegger's Topology

Davidson's Holism (orig. Donald Davidson and the Mirror of Meaning)

Although extensively revised during 2002, and again in 2010, the core of this book, originally pu... more Although extensively revised during 2002, and again in 2010, the core of this book, originally published as Donald Davidson and the Mirror of Meaning, was written between 1987 and 1991. Davidson read the original typescript after attending the NEH seminar on 'Heidegger and Davidson: Critics of Cartesianism' organized by Hubert Dreyfus at Santa Cruz in 1990, sending me a faxed message shortly after the seminar that read: 'Am chagrined to have to admit that I have only just read your book. Would have learned more by staying home and reading it than by attending the recent seminar. Do you have a publisher?' As it happened, the book had at that stage already been accepted for publication by Cambridge University Press.

Heidegger and the Thinking of Place

1. Introduction:Transcendental Heidegger

Stanford University Press eBooks, Mar 21, 2007

Place, past, and person

Routledge eBooks, Feb 19, 2018

Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jun 3, 2021

Donald Davidson

Hybris, 2008

Politics, Sociology, and the “Inevitability” of Failure

Routledge eBooks, Jan 16, 2023

Philosophy’s Nostalgia

The MIT Press eBooks, Jan 27, 2012

Windows through a window

Place, space, and capital: The landscapes of Patrick Keiller

Environment And Planning D: Society And Space, Jul 26, 2016

Place and Experience: A Philosophical Topography

The Philosophical Review, Oct 1, 2001

Bruce Aune: "Metaphysics: The Elements

Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 1989

Agency and objectivity

Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jun 28, 1999

Immigration, Indigeneity and Identity

Routledge eBooks, Feb 17, 2015

Introduction – The Intelligence of Place

Timing Space-Spacing Time

Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2015

1. Can we think temporality without also thinking the spatial? Might not the thinking of temporal... more 1. Can we think temporality without also thinking the spatial? Might not the thinking of temporality always implicate the thinking of the spatial along with it? It might be thought that this question is already answered in modern physics by the notion, appearing in Minkowski et al (1923), but also present, for instance, in Samuel Alexander (1920), of space and time as a continuum, as space-time. My interest here is not merely with the thinking of space and time as they occur as formal elements within physical theory, however, but rather with a more fundamental understanding of these concepts as they belong to the very framework of experience. What is at issue is not merely a question concerning the nature of the temporal alone, but of the unity of time with space, and so also of the character of event, action, and performance, and of these as spacings no less than timings. The idea of the unity of time with space, expressed in the notion of ‘timespace’ (Zeitraum), is a central idea in the development of Martin Heidegger’s thinking as it moves away from the problematic treatment of time and space that is evident in Being and Time.1 On this account, there is no temporality that does not bring spatiality along with it, and no spatiality that does not bring temporality also. Understanding the unity of timespace is to understand the unity of place. Indeed, it is only in and through that unity, which is also always a working out of plurality, that there is any possibility of the transcendence that is so often associated with art and performance, as well as with philosophy.

A Taste of Madeleine

International Philosophical Quarterly, 1994

L'A. etudie le roman de Proust «A la recherche du temps perdu» en examinant le developpement ... more L'A. etudie le roman de Proust «A la recherche du temps perdu» en examinant le developpement de la recherche du lieu et d'une essence dans le cadre d'une problematique temporelle. L'A. interprete le passage de la madeleine a partir notamment des analyses sur la memoire de Bachelard, de la psychanalyse, de Deleuze ou encore de Heidegger

Beginning in Wonder

Routledge eBooks, Sep 27, 2006

The Place of Landscape

The MIT Press eBooks, 2011

This volume explores the conceptual "topography" of landscape: It examines the characte... more This volume explores the conceptual "topography" of landscape: It examines the character of landscape as itself a mode of place as well as the modes of place that appear in relation to landscape.Leading scholars from a range of disciplines explore the concept of landscape, including its supposed relation to the spectatorial, its character as time-space, its relation to indigenous notions of "country," and its liminality. They examine landscape as it appears within a variety of contexts, from geography through photography and garden history to theology; and more specific studies look at the forms of landscape in medieval landscape painting, film and television, and in relation to national identity. The essays demonstrate that the study of landscape cannot be restricted to any one genre, cannot be taken as the exclusive province of any one discipline, and cannot be exhausted by any single form of analysis. What the place of landscape now evokes is itself a wide-ranging terrain encompassing issues concerning the nature of place, of human being in place, and of the structures that shape such being and are shaped by it.

Death and Philosophy

Taylor & Francis eBooks, Feb 16, 2010

Table of Contents. 1.Death and Philosphy: Introduction, Jeff Malpas and Robert C. Solomon 2.My De... more Table of Contents. 1.Death and Philosphy: Introduction, Jeff Malpas and Robert C. Solomon 2.My Death, Tem Horwitz 3.Against Death, Reinhard Steiner 4.On the Purported Insignificance of Death, Ivan Soll 5.Death and the Skeleton,Kathleen Higgins 6.Death: The Baid Scenario, Betty S Flowers 7.Death as Transformation in Classical Daoism, Roger Ames 8.Death and Enlightenment, Robert Wicks 9.Death and Detachment, Graham Parkes 10.Death and Metaphysics, Peter Kraus 11.Death and Authenticity, Julien Young 12.Death and the Unity of a Life, Jeff Malpas 13.The Antinomy of Death, Peter Loptson 14.Death Fetishism, Morbid Solipsism, Roberts C. Solomon.

Self and the space of others

Routledge eBooks, Feb 19, 2018

“The House of Being”

Interview with Paul J. Ennis

Jeff Malpas interviewed by Laureano Ralón April 24th, 2010 (Figure/Ground)

Landscaping Heidegger: Jeff Malpas interviewed by Richard Marshall.

Jeff Malpas in Conversation with Babette Babich

Fenomenološka skica izvora arhitekturnega dela in vprašanje oblasti/moči * The Phenomenological Sketch on the Origin of Architecture and the Question of Power

by Jeff Malpas and Dean Komel

On Power in Architecture #2: A Phenomenological Perspective International Symposium 13 September 2018, 10:00–16:00 Venue: Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana Speakers: Andrew Benjamin, Dean Komel, Jeff Malpas, Luka Skansi, Peter Trawny

The relation between architecture and power seems to offer itself in an immediate way. Howeve... more The relation between architecture and power seems to offer itself in an immediate way. However, the question arises: What kind of power do we have in mind when we connect it with architecture? Is this political, religious, economical, or another kind of social power? Or should we assume that architecture has to do with some, even more original, power that concerns the arche of the world itself? This “arche of the world” is the central theme of phenomenological philosophy as initiated by Edmund Husserl at the beginning of the 20th century. I would like to sketch a possible phenomenological approach to the problem of “power within architecture”. A “sketch” can be understood as the key element of architectural praxis itself. On this basis, we can consider the question of whether and how architectural praxis can play a critical role in addressing different positions of social power, rather than finding self-satisfaction as their subservient toy.
video : http://videolectures.net/igorzabelseries_komel_fenomenoloska_skica/

V predavanju sem skiciral možni fenomenološki pristop k problemu »oblasti/moči v arhitekturi«. »Skico« lahko pri tem razumemo kot osnovni element same arhitekturne prakse. Na tej podlagi lahko razmislimo o vprašanju, če in kako naj arhitekturna praksa igra kritično vlogo pri naslavljanju različnih pozicij, ki se tičejo družbene oblasti, namesto da se skuša zadovoljiti kot zgolj njena uslužna igrača.

Posnetek: http://videolectures.net/igorzabelseries_komel_fenomenoloska_skica/

"Next year in Jerusalem": Homeland and the orienting of the world

Next year in Jerusalem" is the phrase, first used in the 15 th century, that traditionally ends t... more Next year in Jerusalem" is the phrase, first used in the 15 th century, that traditionally ends the seder, the Jewish Passover meal. It provides a striking expression of the importance of the Holy City in Jewish religious life and practice, and in Jewish culture more broadly. The phrase has an obvious significance for a people who have retained a strong sense of religious and cultural identity despite their global dispersion-and if the phrase has nowadays seemed anachronistic to some, it may be thought to have taken on a new significance over the lockdowns and border closures associated with the pandemic. But just as Jerusalem has an importance that is not exclusive to Judaism, so the mode of orientation that "Next year in Jerusalem" expresses-an orientation that orders the world around a single collectively significant place and landscape, a homeland (perhaps even, though it may sound out of place in this context, a Heimat)-is not peculiar to its medieval origins nor to Jewish life and culture alone. Indeed, it is a much more pervasive, one might even say, ubiquitous, feature of human existence. Leaving the more specifically historical and ethnographic exploration of homeland in its various instantiations to others in this volume, my aim here is to explore the idea of homeland from a more philosophical perspective, examining some of the other notions with which it is closely associated (especially of place, landscape, identity, and self), and exploring some of the reasons why, despite the widespread suspicion that nowadays also attaches to it, the idea of homeland has been and remains an important element in human life and experience. The hope is that in better understanding the idea itself, we can also better understand its more specific historical and cultural, including religious and spiritual, instantiations. In English, "homeland" is an uncommon word-or at least it has been. Most often English writers have used it to refer to the homelands of others (and sometimes to the lands that have been made their homes) rather than of their own. English has no word that matches the German Heimat, for which homeland is usually offered as the only readily available, but nonetheless inadequate, translation.