Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Thinking of Place -- Part I. Topological Thinking -- Chapter 1. The Topos of Thinking -- Chapter 2. The Turning to/of Place -- The Failure of Being and Time -- Place and the Problem of World -- Place and the History of Being -- Place and the Turning -- Topos as Surface and Structure -- Conclusion: The Signifi cance of Heidegger ' s Later Thinking -- Chapter 3. The Place of Topology -- Phenomenology and Subjectivity -- Temporality and Historicity -- Heimat and the Experience of Wonder -- Dwelling and Technology -- Part II. Topological Concepts -- Chapter 4. Ground, Unity, and Limit -- The Concept of Ground -- Chapter 5. Nihilism, Place, and "Position" -- Place and "Position" -- Place and "Subjectivism" -- Chapter 6. Place, Space, and World -- Space and Spatiality in Being and Time -- Subjectivity, Objectivity, and Agency -- World and "World-Formation" -- World, Space, and Time -- Conclusion: Rethinking Space and World -- Chapter 7. Geography, Biology, and Politics -- From the Historical to the Geographical -- A Problem of Politics -- Heidegger and von Uexküll -- Ratzel and Vidal de la Blache -- The "Uncanniness" of Place -- Conclusion: Place and the Political -- Part III. Topological Horizons -- Chapter 8. Philosophy's Nostalgia -- Chapter 9. Death and the End of Life -- Living and Having a Life -- Unity and the Idea of a Life -- Life and the Unity of Narrative -- Mortality and Finitude -- The End of Life-the Nothing -- Chapter 10. Topology, Triangulation, and Truth -- Reprising Heidegger's Topology -- Explicating Davidson's Topography -- Topography, Hermeneutics, and Truth -- Conclusion: Reading across Philosophical Divides -- Chapter 11. Heidegger in Benjamin's City -- Chapter 12. The Working of Art -- Epilogue: Beginning in Wonder -- The Origin of Philosophy -- Appearance and Encounter.

Strangeness and Questionability -- The Return of Philosophy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.