Getting Back Into Place, Second Edition

Edward S. Casey is Distinguished Professor at Stony Brook University. His previous books include Imagining (IUP, 2nd ed., 2000), Remembering (IUP, 2nd ed., 2000), and The World at a Glance (IUP, 2007).

"Casey's contributions complement those [of other writers], but they surpass most extant works in their majestic breadth, depth, and scope, offering insightful analyses, careful explications, and creative re-readings of both environmental phenomena and historical texts."—Environmental Ethics"This important and inspiring book is without question the most significant statement on place in our time."—Theology Today"Getting Back into Place offers an even more generous approach to place. According to Casey, we connect with a place merely by being attentive to it, open to its possibilities."—Environmental History Review"This rich intervention in the current discourse among scholars in the humanities and social sciences asserts the pervasiveness of place in constructing culture and identity."—World Trade"In descriptions of unprecedented scope, power, and concision, Casey illuminates brilliantly the vexing question crucial for our survival: What is our place in the domain we inhabit and in wilderness Nature?"—Bruce Wilshire

• Preface: Being before PlaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction to the Second EditionPart 1. Finding Place1. Implacement2. DisplacementPart 2. The Body in Place3. Directions4. DimensionsPart 3. Built Places5. Two Ways to Dwell6. Building Sites and Cultivating PlacesPart 4. Wild Places7. The Arc of Desolation and the Array of Description8. Going Wild in the LandPart 5. Moving Between Places9. Homeward Bound: Ending (in) the JourneyEpilogue. New Work on Place: Space, Time, and HistoryHow to Get from Space to Place in a Fairly Short Stretch of TimeSmooth Spaces and Rough-Edged Places: The Hidden History of PlaceNotesIndex