Azucena Cruz-Pierre and Donald A. Landes - Exploring the Work of Edward S. Casey: Giving Voice to Place, Memory, and Imagination

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Exploring the Work of Edward S. Casey

Giving Voice to Place, Memory, and Imagination

Edited by

Azucena Cruz-Pierre and Donald A. Landes

Including interviews with Edward S. Casey

Bloomsbury Academic

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First published 2013

Azucena Cruz-Pierre, Donald A. Landes, and Contributors, 2013

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eISBN: 978-1-4411-8195-4

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Exploring the work of Edward S. Casey : giving voice to place, memory, and imagination / edited by Azucena Cruz-Pierre and Donald A. Landes, with Edward S. Casey.

pages cm. (Bloomsbury studies in American philosophy)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4411-2221-6 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-4411-8195-4 (ebook (epub) ISBN 978-1-4411-5659-4 (ebook (pdf)

1. Casey, Edward S., 1939 I. Cruz-Pierre, Azucena, editor of compilation.

B945.C244E97 2013

191dc23

2013015422

Looking out to Sea from Stonington(2006), by Edward S. Casey. Watercolor

Contents

It is with great pleasure that we begin by acknowledging the seemingly limitless generosity of Edward S. Casey. Ed has been a mentor and a friend to both of the editors over the years, and we are honored to have had the opportunity to bring together this multivoiced book, a collection that sounds out the depths of the voices in Eds own (philosophical and personal) voice, and manifests reverberations of Eds voice across the communities he inspires. And what a pleasure it was to solicit Eds uniquely humble yet profound voice in the interview format. The places of the these interviews (New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and the virtual place of Video calls) were resummoned through the transcribing process, imagined and remembered through reinscription, playing with the rigid borders of sound recording and the vague boundaries of a disrupted, lived conversation over a year in dure. Thank you, Ed, for your encouragement and support in this project. And indeed, on behalf of all of your students, readers, and interlocutors, thank you for your time and for your voice.

Secondly, we must acknowledge the incredible contributions that appear in this book. The authors worked with seemingly impossible deadlines and produced fascinating and original contributions engaging with and inspired by Caseys rich uvre. Our appreciation is warmly extended to the contributors: Kent Bloomer, David Carr, Megan Craig, Fred Evans, Eugene Gendlin, Eve Ingalls, Galen A. Johnson, Eva Feder Kittay, Jeff Malpas, David Morris, Thierry Paquot, Alberto Prez-Gmez, Gary Shapiro, Angeliki Sioli, and Tanja Staehler. A special note of appreciation should be added to Thierry Paquot, whose excitement in relation to Caseys work first gave birth to the idea for a book of this nature through his conversations with Azucena Cruz-Pierre. In addition, this project greatly benefited from the advice of Mary Rawlinson, Anthony Steinbock, and Gail Weiss. We also would like to thank Kathleen Hulley for her significant help editing the endnotes and Works Cited pages, and for compiling the selective Chronological Bibliography of Work of Edward S. Casey. Finally, our appreciation to Ioana Barac, Ricardo Barros, Kent Bloomer, Eve Ingalls, Lily Rosenthal, and Tanja Staehler for their permission to reproduce their various photographs, sketches, and illustrations, and to the Gemldegalerie of the Staatlichen Museen of Berlin for permission to reproduce Tanja Staehlers photograph from within their gallery space.

Editors

Azucena Cruz-Pierre received her doctorate in philosophy from Stony Brook University in 2009 and is currently living in Nantes, France, where she continues her philosophic investigation of everyday urban and placial experiences. She is also partaking in a collaboration piece that is a visual and poetic exploration of the concept of voyage. Her primary research involves the formation of housing segregation in urban areas and brings together the fields of architecture, urbanism, sociology and philosophy. She has published a chapter in