ABSTRACT
The complex structure of place – suggests that the idea of place does not so much bring a certain ethics and politics with it but rather defines the very frame within which the ethical and political must be located. Philosophy is topographical, not only because the topographical structure determines the very structure and methodology of philosophical inquiry, but also because place itself is the primary focus of philosophical inquiry. In the course of those inquiries and explorations, a particular 'place' or territory has been laid down; not merely certain discussions in epistemology and metaphysics, and in the philosophy of mind and of language, but in literary and psychological appropriations of ideas of place and locality. Each element within the topographical structure at issue supposedly finds its unity in its relation to other elements – every element depends on every other.
