‘Where Hegel Meets the Chinese Gulls’: Place, Work and World

Abstract

Beginning with White’s concern with the question of world, Malpas moves to explore the implication of the self in philosophical and poetic reflection, along with the essentially placed character of such reflection; the character of place as tied to both staying and journeying, and the role of narrative and movement in the structure of place; the role of language in the opening of place and world, and so also the topology that belongs to language and to poetry; and, finally, the political and cultural critique that is bound up with White’s own geopoetics and the turn to place that it can be seen to embody.