The ideas of place--topos--runs through Martin Heidegger's thinkingalmost from the very start. It can be seen not only in his attachment to the famoushut in Todtnauberg but in his constant deployment of topological terms and imagesand in the situated, "placed" character of his thought and of its majorthemes and motifs. Heidegger's work, argues Jeff Malpas, exemplifies the practice of"philosophical topology." "In Heidegger and the Thinking ofPlace," Malpas examines the topological aspects of Heidegger's thought andoffers a broader elaboration of the philosophical significance of place. Doing so, he provides a distinct and productive approach to Heidegger as well as a new readingof other key figures--notably Kant, Aristotle, Gadamer, and Davidson, but alsoBenjamin, Arendt, and Camus. Malpas, expanding arguments he made in his earlier book"Heidegger's Topology" (MIT Press, 2007), discusses such topics asthe role of place in philosophical thinking, the topological character of thetranscendental, the convergence of Heideggerian topology with Davidsoniantriangulation, the necessity of mortality in the possibility of human life, the roleof materiality in the working of art, the significance of nostalgia, and the natureof philosophy as beginning in wonder. Philosophy, Malpas argues, begins in wonderand begins in place and the experience of place. The place of wonder, of philosophy, of questioning, he writes, is the very topos of thinking.