Estrangement: A Beginners Guide to the Strangeness of the World Chapter

abstract

• Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014. Geographers adopted the concept of Being-in-the-World from Martin Heidegger. However, mosthave wisely eschewed the philosophers larger ontological and pantheistic project. Nevertheless, geographers can make use of basic phenomenological concepts and terms. The world of appearances can be reduced to the three basic phenomena of objects, subjects, and death, and each of these phenomen engenders in humans a feeling of estrangement, angst, or alienation. There are four responses to the worlds appearance as an uncanny place: otherworldliness, existentialism, naturalism, and escapis.Because the events predicted in this volume will almost certainly make the world appear more and more uncanny, an important(but here unanswered) question is which of these responses will prevail

authors

• Smith, Jonathan

author list (cited authors)

• Smith, J. M.

citation count

• 1

complete list of authors

• Smith, Jonathan M

editor list (cited editors)

• Norwine, J.

Book Title

• A World After Climate Change and Culture-Shift

publication date

• January 2014

publisher

• Springer Nature  Publisher

keywords

• 36 Creative Arts And Writing
• 50 Philosophy And Religious Studies
• 5004 Religious Studies

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1007/978-94-007-7353-0_2

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 13

• 9789400773523

start page

• 15

end page

• 23

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1007%2F978-94-007-7353-0_2