ABSTRACT
In Getting Back Into Place and The Fate of Place, S. Casey Edward argues that philosophers, particularly since the early modern period have generally neglected the phenomenon of place and focused instead on the phenomena of space and time. Drawing on Edmund Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, Casey argues that the body is no more reducible to a physical thing than place is. Many psychologists, Merleau-Ponty writes, argue that infants experience others as perceptive only through analogy. The phenomenon of place deserves, therefore, to be considered in its own right; such consideration not only reveals that place is irreducible to space but also is in relation to time “if anything, a first among equals.” In The Structure of Behavior, Merleau-Ponty argues that behaviorism is ultimately unable to account for the behavior of living beings because it fails to recognize the very phenomenon of behavior.
