The fate of place

A philosophical history Avoiding the void: pimaveral patterns; Mastering the matrix: The Enuma Elish and Plato´s Timaeus; Place as container: Aristotele´s Physics; The emergence of space in hellenistic and neoplatonic thought; The ascent of infinite space: medieval and renaissance speculations; Modern space as absolute: Gassendi and Newton; Modern space as extensive: Descartes; Modern spac as relative: Locke and Leibniz; Modern space as site and point: Position, panopticon and pure form; By way of body: Kant, Whitehead, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty; Proceeding to place by indirection; Heidegger; Giving a face to place in the present: Bachelard, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Derrida, Irigaray; Places rediscovered