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Jeff Malpas: from hermeneutics to topology

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The chapter provides an overview of Malpas’ topological thinking both in its connection to hermeneutics and as a particular elaboration on the notion of place. Malpas’ topological approach is presented here as an exploration of the character and structure of human placedness or situatedness. This inquiry into situatedness is argued to be integral of any attempt to lay bare the topological character of understanding and interpretation, and therefore of any project aiming at developing a topological hermeneutics. The chapter offers, firstly, a general outline of Malpas’ topology as a philosophical method that is most characteristic of his sustained commitment to explore topos and the belonging together of time and place (along with space) as proper to human involvement in world. Secondly, the chapter moves on to explore certain core spatial and topological concepts in order to explain what is at issue in Malpas’ topological elaboration of hermeneutics and how this essential connection between place and hermeneutics is construed by him. Finally, the chapter takes up explicitly the question of place and attempts to clarify in what sense Malpas’ treatment of this notion might be said to be distinctive in relation to other contemporary developments.

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Puente Lozano, P. (2017). Jeff Malpas: from hermeneutics to topology. In: Place, Space, and Hermeneutics. Cham: Springer, 2017, pp. 301-316

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