Mapping the Present : Heidegger, Foucault and the Project of a Spatial History

232 Pages·2002·1.361 MB·English

by  Stuart Elden

Mapping the Present:
Heidegger, Foucault and the
Project of a Spatial History
STUART ELDEN

CONTINUUM
Mapping the Present
A note on translations
Throughout, key works are referenced back to the original language. In some
instances this is not merely desirable but essential – crucial texts of both
Heidegger and Foucault are unavailable in English. Where translations do
exist, they have generally been used, although they have often been modified,
to ensure readability, consistency, and particularly to allow emphasis on the
spatiallanguageused.
Mapping
the Present
Heidegger, Foucault and the
Project of a Spatial History
STUART ELDEN

CONTINUUM
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Abbreviations viii
Introduction 1
ChapterOne:SpaceandHistoryinBeingandTime 8
Ontology,HistoryandTime 8
TheSpaceofDaseinandEquipment 15
ReadingKantPhenomenologically 21
TowardsHo¨lderlinandNietzsche 27
ChapterTwo:IntheShadowofNazism:ReadingHo¨lderlinand
Nietzsche 29
Einfu¨hrung:Introduction 29
I:Ho¨lderlin 33
TheGermaniaandRhineHymns 34
TheIsterHymn 40
II:Nietzsche 43
ReturningtotheAugenblick 44
SpaceandtheBody 49
Excursus:TheBeitra¨ge 56
PowerandPerspectivism 57
ChapterThree:Art,Technology,PlaceandthePolitical 63
TheOriginoftheWorkofArt 63
Re-thinkingthePo´liQ 67
vi Contents
TheQuestionofTechnology 75
DwellingPoeticallyatthePlaceoftheFourfold 82
PlatialDescriptions 84
ArtandSpace 89
ChapterFour:TowardsaSpatialHistory 93
I:AHistoryofLimits 93
Archaeology 95
Genealogy 102
II:MappingthePresent 111
ChapterFive:TheSpacesofPower 120
I:Re-placingMadnessandCivilisation 120
Leprosy,WaterandMadness 121
ConfinementandCorrection 124
ObservingandClassifying 127
TheBirthofMoralImprisonment 130
II:NotThroughBentham’sEyes 133
ATorturousSediment 136
TheArmy,Schools,Monasteries,Factories 139
TheSpacesofMedicine 141
ThePanopticonandPanopticism 145
Conclusion 151

Notes 155
Bibliography 197
Index 213
Acknowledgements
ThisbookisbasedinlargepartonmyPhDthesis,gainedatBrunelUniversity
in1999.I oweahugedebtofthankstoMarkNeocleous,whosupervisedthis
thesisandhascontinuedtoofferadvice,criticismandencouragementthrough-
out.DavidWoottonandBarbaraGoodwinsupervisedearlypartsofthiswork,
andMauriceKoganactedassecondsupervisor.MichaelDillonandKevinHether-
ington examined the thesis and made a number of useful suggestions. Bela
Chatterjee read the entire PhD manuscript and made several pertinent com-
ments.SharonCowanhelpedenormouslyattheproofstage.Ithankthemall.
In a work that stresses the importance of place, it is worth noting two
particular places where large portions of this work were written: Chamonix-
MtBlancintheFrenchAlps,andtheSwainswickvalleyoutsideBath.Ithank
Pierre, Genevie`ve, andIsabelle Pre´poignotfor theirhospitalityinthefirstand
PeteCoulsonandJaneUnderdownfortheirfriendshipinthesecond.
I would also like to thank a number of other people who have been of
assistance, either academic or otherwise: Allegra Catolfi Salvoni; Elgin Diaz;
Hubert Dreyfus; Sarah Elliott; Julia Garrett; Be´atrice Han; Michael Hughes;
Jeff Jackson; Morris Kaplan; Eleonore Kofman; RebMcCaffry;LizziPickton;
JoanneReeves-Baker;JonSprake;andMajaZehfuss.

Aboveall,Ioweagreatdealtomyfamily–especiallymymotherRosemary,
Ian, Nicky, Rachel and my grandmother – for their support and encourage-
ment throughout, and to Susan Rizor for her love in the time it took to
transform the thesis into this book. This work is dedicated to my father,
without whose support I would never have reached this far; sadly he was
unabletoseeitscompletion.
Versions of parts of this work have previously appeared as: Heidegger’s
Ho¨lderlin and the Importance of Place, Journal of the British Society for
Phenomenology, Vol.30 No.3, October 1999; Rethinking the Polis: Implica-
tions of Heidegger’s Questioning the Political, Political Geography, Vol.19
No.4, May 2000; and Reading Genealogy as Historical Ontology, in Alan
Rosenberg and Alan Milchman (eds), Foucault and Heidegger: Critical encoun-
ters,Minneapolis:UniversityofMinnesotaPress,2002.
Abbreviations
I Abbreviations to works by Friedrich Nietzsche
KSA Sa¨mtlicheWerke:KritischeStudienausgabe,editedbyGiorgioColliand
Mazzino Montinari, Berlin and Munich: W. de Gruyter and
Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, fifteen volumes, 1980 (cited by vol-
umeandpage).
Individual works are cited by the following code; references are to the part,
sectionandsub-sectionbynumber,ratherthanthepage,asthesearethesame
inalleditions.
A Der Antichrist (1888), KSA VI. Translated by Walter Kaufmann as
The Antichrist in The Portable Nietzsche, Harmondsworth: Penguin,
1954.
FW Die fro¨hliche Wissenschaft (1882, Book V 1887), KSA III. Translated
byWalterKaufmannasTheGayScience,NewYork:Vintage,1974.
GD Go¨tzenda¨mmerung (1888), KSA VI. Translated by Walter Kaufmann
as The Twilight of the Idols in The Portable Nietzsche,Harmondsworth:
Penguin,1954.
GT Die Geburt der Trago¨die (1872), KSA I. Translated by Walter Kauf-
mannasTheBirthofTragedy,NewYork:Vintage,1967.
JGB Jenseits von Gut und Bo¨se (1886), KSA V. Translated by Walter
Kaufmannas BeyondGoodandEvil,NewYork:Vintage,1966.
M Morgenro¨te (1881), KSA III. Translated by R. J. Hollingdale as
Daybreak,Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,1981.
MAM Menschliches, Allzumenschliches (1878), KSA II. Translated by R. J.
Hollingdale as Human, All Too Human, Cambridge:CambridgeUni-
versityPress,1986.
UB Unzeitgema¨ße Betrachtungen (1873–6), KSA I. Translated by R. J.
Hollingdale as Untimely Meditations, Cambridge: Cambridge Univer-
sityPress,1983.
WM Der Wille zur Macht (Notes from 1883–8), in Nietzsches Werke,
Leipzig, C. G. Naumann Verlag, ten volumes, 1906, Vols9 and 10.
Abbreviations ix
Translated by Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale as The Will to
Power,NewYork:Vintage,1968.
WS Der Wanderer und Sein Schatten (1880) KSA II. Translated by R. J.
Hollingdale as The Wanderer and His Shadow in Human, All Too
Human,Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,1986.
Z Also sprach Zarathustra (1883–5), KSA IV. Translated by Walter
Kaufmann as Thus Spoke Zarathustra in The Portable Nietzsche, Har-
mondsworth:Penguin,1954.
II Abbreviations to works by Martin Heidegger
GA Gesamtausgabe, Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann,
1975ff.
GA1 Fru¨heSchriften,1978.
GA2 Sein und Zeit, 1977. Translated by Edward Robinson and John
Macquarrie as Being and Time, Oxford: Blackwell, 1962, and by
JoanStambaughasBeingandTime:AtranslationofSeinundZeit,
Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. References
aretothemarginalpaginationfoundintheEnglishandGerman,
which refer to the original text: Sein und Zeit, Tu¨bingen: Max
Niemeyer,Eleventhedition,1967.
GA3 KantunddasProblemderMetaphysik,1991.TranslatedbyRichard
TaftasKantandtheProblemofMetaphysics,Bloomington:Indiana
UniversityPress,1997.

GA4 Erla¨uterungenzuHo¨lderlinsDichtung,1981.
GA5 Holzwege,1977.Marginalpagination.
GA6 Nietzsche, Two Volumes, 1996. Translated by David Farrell
Krell, Frank Capuzzi and Joan Stambaugh as Nietzsche (N), San
Francisco: Harper Collins, Four Volumes, 1991 and as The End
ofPhilosophy(EP),London:SouvenirPress,1975.
GA9 Wegmarken,1976.Marginalpagination.Translatedbyvariousas
Pathmarks, edited by William McNeill, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1998. Page references are to the numbers in
squarebrackets.
GA10 Der Satz vom Grund, 1997. Translated by Reginald Lilly as The