thus focus on the idea of place, first, as it appears in Heidegger's thinking as it arises in a number of ways and in relation to a range of issues, and second, as it can be seen to provide the focus for a distinctive mode of philosophical thinking that encompasses, but is not restricted to, the Heideggerian' (1-2). This is why, Malpas clarifies, 'the essays collected here. It was in fact Heidegger himself, in the 1969 Thor seminar, who stressed the topological dimension of his thinking, using the expression 'topology of be-ing' to replace the earlier expressions 'meaning of being' and 'truth of being.' However, Malpas' broader objective is to reveal the role of place in philosophical thinking as such: 'On my account, the attempt to think place, and to think in accord with place, is at the heart of philosophy as such' (43). Further, Malpas insists that 'Heidegger's own work cannot adequately be understood except as topological in character, and so as centrally concerned with place - topos, Ort, Ortschaft' (43). We never find in it any places, that is, things of the kind the bridge is.' Īccordingly, Malpas explains that Heidegger's Topology attempted to give 'an account of the way in which place provides a starting point for Heidegger's thinking as well as an idea toward which it develops' (69).

But in this sense 'the' space, 'space,' contains no spaces and no locations. Already in 'Building Dwelling Thinking,' Heidegger had elaborated on that distinction between space and place, writing that, 'The space provided for in this mathematical manner may be called 'space,' the 'one' space as such. In contrast with Kant, for whom various places and locations are possible on the basis of the one a priori space as an infinite given magnitude, Heidegger stresses that 'place is not located in a pre-given space, after the manner of physical-technological space.' Rather, the 'latter unfolds itself only through the reigning of places of a region' (GA 13, 208/AS, 308).

Indeed, at times (though not consistently, as we will see), Heidegger understands by 'space' the scientific, mathematized, homogeneous, and abstract space, which he characterizes as that 'homogeneous separation that is not distinct in any of its possible places.' In fact, for Heidegger, space presupposes place. Jeff Malpas' new book follows and expands on his earlier Heidegger's Topology: Being, Place, World (2006), a work that proposed to explore the question of space in Heidegger's thought, or rather, we should say, of place.

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