In this pioneering book, Robert Mugerauer seeks to make deconstruction and hermeneutics accessible to people in the environmental disciplines, including architecture, planning, urban studies, environmental studies, and cultural geography. Mugerauer demonstrates each methodology through a case study. The first study uses the traditional approach to recover the meaning of Jung's and Wittgenstein's houses by analyzing their historical, intentional contexts. The second case study utilizes deconstruction to explore Egyptian, French neoclassical, and postmodern attempts to use pyramids to constitute a sense of lasting presence. And the third case study employs hermeneutics to reveal how the American understanding of the natural landscape has evolved from religious to secular to ecological since the nineteenth century.

Interpreting Environments: Tradition, Deconstruction, Hermeneutics

Politics & Social Sciences

Mugerauer, Robert

Philosophy

University of Texas Press

In this pioneering book, Robert Mugerauer seeks to make deconstruction and hermeneutics accessible to people in the environmental disciplines, including architecture, planning, urban studies, environmental studies, and cultural geography. Mugerauer demonstrates each methodology through a case study. The first study uses the traditional approach to recover the meaning of Jung's and Wittgenstein's houses by analyzing their historical, intentional contexts. The second case study utilizes deconstruction to explore Egyptian, French neoclassical, and postmodern attempts to use pyramids to constitute a sense of lasting presence. And the third case study employs hermeneutics to reveal how the American understanding of the natural landscape has evolved from religious to secular to ecological since the nineteenth century.

Heidegger's Language and Thinking

Heidegger scholars agree that the manner in which Heidegger handles language is inseparably bound up with what he has to say and must therefore be taken as an intrinsic part of the method or "way" of his thinking. Recent analyses of Heidegger's special uses of language have however tendned, Robert Mugerauer observes, to span Heidegger's work as a whole, rather than to elaborate Heidegger's theory of language by focusing in detail on individual texts. Mugerauer therefore offers here a close, careful reading and analysis of three of Heidegger's works, Discourse on Thinking, A Dialogue on Language and What is Called Thinking?, and demonstrates clearly that Heidegger's language and thinking are in a very real sense the same.

Heidegger's language and thinking

Humanities Press International

Humanities

In this book, Mugerauer emphasizes the interplay between European continental philosophy and North American environments and architecture. Drawing on a keen understanding of conceptual trends in both scholarship and the design professions, he clarifies various competing philosophical visions and their considerably different perspectives on environment, place, and architecture. The book covers Derrida's deconstruction, Foucault's genealogy, Heidegger's originary thinking, and Eliade's hermeneutics in order to interpret cultural displacements and the possible recovery of "place," especially through interpretation of dwelling, sense of place, landscapes, architecture, planning, urban design, and technology. Mugerauer identifies a series of design principles that might facilitate mutual understanding.

Interpretations on Behalf of Place: Environmental Displacements and Alternative Responses (Suny Series in Environmental and Architectural Phenomenol)

State Univ of New York Pr

In this book, Mugerauer emphasizes the interplay between European continental philosophy and North American environments and architecture. Drawing on a keen understanding of conceptual trends in both scholarship and the design professions, he clarifies various competing philosophical visions and their considerably different perspectives on environment, place, and architecture. The book covers Derrida’s deconstruction, Foucault’s genealogy, Heidegger’s originary thinking, and Eliade’s hermeneutics in order to interpret cultural displacements and the possible recovery of “place,” especially through interpretation of dwelling, sense of place, landscapes, architecture, planning, urban design, and technology. Mugerauer identifies a series of design principles that might facilitate mutual understanding.

Interpretations on Behalf of Place: Environmental Displacements and Alternative Respon (Suny Series in Environmental and Architectural)

State University of New York Press

Martin Heidegger's philosophical works devoted themselves to challenging previously held ontological notions of what constitutes "being," and much of his work focused on how beings interact within particular spatial locations. Frequently, Heidegger used the motifs of homelessness and homecoming in order to express such spatial interactions, and despite early and continued recognition of the importance of homelessness and homecoming, this is the first sustained study of these motifs in his later works.
 Utilizing both literary and philosophical analysis, Heidegger and Homecoming reveals the deep figural unity of the German philosopher's writings, by exploring not only these homecoming and homelessness motifs, but also the six distinctive voices that structure the apparent disorder of his works. In this illuminating and comprehensive study, Robert Mugerauer argues that these motifs and Heidegger's many voices are required to overcome and replace conventional and linear methods of logic and representation.
 Making use of material that has been both neglected and yet to be translated into English, Heidegger and Homecoming explains the elaborate means with which Heidegger proposed that humans are able to open themselves to others, while at the same time preserve their self-identity.

Heidegger and Homecoming: The Leitmotif in the Later Writings (New Studies in Phenomenology and Hermeneutics)

University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division

Much recent philosophical work proposes to illuminate dilemmas of human existence with reference to the arts and culture, often to the point of submitting particular works to preconceived formulations. In this examination of three texts that respond to loss, Robert Mugerauer responds with close, detailed readings that seek to clarify the particularity of the intense force such works bring forth. Mugerauer shows how, in the face of what is irrevocably taken away as well as of what continues to be given, the unavoidable task of interpretation is ours alone.Mugerauer examines works in three different forms that powerfully call on us to respond to loss: Cormac McCarthy’s The Crossing, Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish Museum Berlin, and Wim Wenders’s film Wings of Desire. Explicating these difficult but rich works with reference to the thought of Martin Heidegger, Jean-Luc Marion, Hannah Arendt, and Emmanuel Levinas, the author helps us to experience the multiple and diverse ways in which all of us are opened to the saturated phenomena of loss, violence, witnessing, and responsibility.

Responding to Loss: Heideggerian Reflections on Literature, Architecture, and Film (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Fordham University Press

Heidegger and Homecoming: The Leitmotif in the Later Writings

University of Toronto Press

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Interpreting Environments: Tradition, Deconstruction, Hermeneutics

Interpreting Environments: Tradition, Deconstruction, Hermeneutics

Heidegger's language and thinking

Heidegger's Language and Thinking

Interpretations on Behalf of Place: Environmental Displacements and Alternative Responses (Suny Series in Environmental and Architectural Phenomenol)

Interpretations on Behalf of Place: Environmental Displacements and Alternative Respon (Suny Series in Environmental and Architectural)

Heidegger and Homecoming: The Leitmotif in the Later Writings (New Studies in Phenomenology and Hermeneutics)

Responding to Loss: Heideggerian Reflections on Literature, Architecture, and Film (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)

Heidegger and Homecoming: The Leitmotif in the Later Writings

Heidegger's Language and Thinking