Malpas, J. (2006). Heidegger's topology: Being, place, world. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 413 pp., ISBN 0-262-13470-5-X. $38.00 (hardcover).

Ostensibly Malpas' book revolves around two main ideas: first, that place is "a central, if neglected, concept at the heart of philosophical inquiry" and, second, that "the concept of place is also central to the thinking of the key twentieth-century philosopher, Martin Heidegger" (p. 1). However, Malpas does not provide much discussion of the first idea, in part because he has given that kind of account in his previous monograph, Place and Experience: A Philosophical Topography (Cambridge University Press, 1999). Instead, the book is ...