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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

Series | Book | Chapter

191863

Between a rock and no place

Ursula Meier's Home (2008)

Conn Holohan

pp. 177-190

Abstract

Home as a place does not exist […] The concept home refers to an impossible place, a utopia—but also to an extimate place, […] a symbolic fiction that makes one’s actual place of habitation bearable.1

Publication details

Published in:

Richardson Bill (2015) Spatiality and symbolic expression: on the links between place and culture. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Pages: 177-190

DOI: 10.1057/9781137488510_9

Full citation:

Holohan Conn (2015) „Between a rock and no place: Ursula Meier's Home (2008)“, In: B. Richardson (ed.), Spatiality and symbolic expression, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 177–190.