The World on Edge

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From one of continental philosophy's most distinctive voices comes a creative contribution to spatial studies, environmental philosophy, and phenomenology. Edward S. Casey identifies how important edges are to us, not only in terms of how we perceive our world, but in our cognitive, artistic, and sociopolitical attentions to it. We live in a world that is constantly on edge, yet edges as such are rarely explored. Casey systematically describes the major and minor edges that configure the human and other-than-human realms, including our everyday experience. He also explores edges in high- stakes situations, such as those that emerge in natural disasters, moments of political and economic upheaval, and encroaching climate change. Casey’s work enables a more lucid understanding of the edge-world that is a necessary part of living in a shared global environment. Cover THE WORLD ON EDGE Title Copyright Dedication CONTENTS Acknowledgments Prelude PART 1 Sorting Out Edges Preface to Part One 1. Borders and Boundaries Interlude I A Panoply of Edges 2. Edges and Surfaces, Edges and Limits Interlude II Cusps, Traces, Veils 3. Edges of Places and Events Interlude III Frames in/of Painting PART 2 Constructed versus Naturally Given Edges Preface to Part Two 4. Natural versus Artifactual Edges 5. Wild Edges Interlude IV Listening to Edges in Music 6. Landscape Edges 7. Intermediate Edges: Parks, Gardens, Neighborhoods, Streets PART 3 Edges of Body and Psyche, Earth and Sky Preface to Part Three 8. At the Edges of My Body 9. Being on Edge and Falling Apart 10. From Earth’s Edge to the Sky and Beyond PART 4 Parting Thoughts A Last Lesson: Not to Put Too Fine an Edge on Things Postlude: Why Edges Matter in Their Very Heterodoxicality Epilogue: Life on the Edge of Danger, Disaster, and Doom Afterword/Foreword: Thinking Edges, Edges of Thinking Index