Edward S. Casey
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Philosophy
Education: Ph.D. Northwestern University, 1967 • B.A. Yale University, 1961
Areas of Specialization: Phenomenology, philosophical psychology, aesthetics, theory of psychoanalysis. Recent research includes investigations into place and space; landscape painting and maps as modes of representation; ethics and the other; feeling and emotion; philosophy of perception (with special attention to the role of the glance); the nature of edges.
Edward Casey, past chairman of the department (1991-2001), works in aesthetics, philosophy
of space and time, ethics, perception, and psychoanalytic theory. He obtained his
doctorate at Northwestern University in 1967 and has taught at Yale University, the
University of California at Santa Barbara, The New School for Social Research, Emory
University, and several other institutions. His published books include Imagining:
A Phenomenological Study (Studies in Continental Thought) (Indiana University Press,
2000), Remembering: A Phenomenological Study (Studies in Continental Thought) (Indiana
University Press, 2000), Getting Back into Place (Indiana University Press, 1993),
and The Fate of Place (University of California Press, 1997).
He has extended his close examination of the place-world to maps and landscape paintings in Representing Place in Landscape Paintings and Maps (Minnesota, 2002) and Earth-Mapping (Minnesota, 2005). A new direction of research is visual perception, with an emphasis on the unsuspected power and subtlety of the glance. The World at a Glance appeared in 2007; a companion volume, The World on Edge, was published in 2017. Currently being undertaken are a book tentatively entitled Emotion in Extremity as well as a book to be called Thinking in Transit, co-written with Megan Craig. Overall, Casey's philosophical work is broadly descriptive and attempts to bear out the nuances of basic phenomena and peri-phenomena of human experience that have been neglected in earlier philosophical accounts.
To learn more about Professor Casey, please visit his website.
He has extended his close examination of the place-world to maps and landscape paintings in Representing Place in Landscape Paintings and Maps (Minnesota, 2002) and Earth-Mapping (Minnesota, 2005). A new direction of research is visual perception, with an emphasis on the unsuspected power and subtlety of the glance. The World at a Glance appeared in 2007; a companion volume, The World on Edge, was published in 2017. Currently being undertaken are a book tentatively entitled Emotion in Extremity as well as a book to be called Thinking in Transit, co-written with Megan Craig. Overall, Casey's philosophical work is broadly descriptive and attempts to bear out the nuances of basic phenomena and peri-phenomena of human experience that have been neglected in earlier philosophical accounts.
To learn more about Professor Casey, please visit his website.