Book Review: Heidegger’s Topology
A review of Heidegger’s Topology: Being, Place, World
In this significant and well-wrought book, Jeff Malpas aims to show how, early and late, Heidegger attempts to think the primal place of thought and being. The book works through Heidegger’s thought but also provides an “investigation of the way in which the concept of place relates to certain core philosophical issues such as the nature of ground, of the transcendental, and of concepts of unity, limit, and bound” (2).
Malpas traces the theme of topology through all of Heidegger’s work, showing its incipient presence in the earlier writings, as well as the problems that led to its becoming more prominent in his later thought.