Table of Contents

Introduction
Tim MEHIGAN: The Space of Perception
Perception, Perspective, Representation
Peter LEECH: The Painting of Philosophy: Space, Perspectivalism, Representability and Consciousness
Rose WOODCOCK: The Anomalous Space of Pictures: Toward a Critique of Stereographic Virtual Reality
James MCARDLE: Shifting Ground in some Australian Photography
Barry EMPSON: Schoenberg’s Hat: Objects in Musical Space
Louise FAIRFAX: Seeing into Space: The Unconscious and Schematisation
Representation, Consciousness, Imagination
Paul MONAGHAN: Bodies and Stairs: Modernist Theatrical Space and Consciousness
Kim ROBERTS: Bridge, Mirror, Labyrinth: Shaping the Intervals of Calvino’s Invisible Cities
Ewen JARVIS: Cartographers of Consciousness: Imagined Library Spaces in the Work of Haruki Murakami, Umberto Eco and Elias Canetti
R.A. GOODRICH: Experiencing Kiefer’s “Scorched Earth” Landscapes: Acts of Re-Enactment, Acquaintance or Empathy?
Constructions of Self in Space
Dirk DE BRUYN: Fractured Urban Memories
Khadija Z. CARROLL: Curating Curiosity: Wonder’s Colonial Phenomenology
Uli KRAHN: A Synthetic Theory of Self, Derived from Migration
Ann MCCULLOCH: Eternal Recurrence: Art, Pain and Consciousness
Notes on Contributors

About the Author

Tim Mehigan studied German literature and philosophy at Sydney, Trier and Freiburg universities, graduating in 1988 with a doctoral thesis on Heinrich von Kleist. He has published widely on literature and philosophy, notably on Kleist and Robert Musil. He has been foundation Chair of Languages at the University of Otago, New Zealand’s premier research university, since 2004, was a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Munich in 1994 and 1995, and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities.