Time, event, place: Heidegger on spatiality

This thesis examines Martin Heidegger's philosophy of spatiality. The term "spatiality" is inclusive of Heidegger's thinking on "space" and "place", and their related structures.;The complex continuity and importance of Heidegger's thinking on spatiality will be examined in this thesis.;The continuity and change of Heidegger's thinking on spatiality throughout his career is an often neglected aspect of Heidegger's work. But a close examination of spatiality provides a depth to Heidegger's philosophy that is often neglected in commentaries taken up with other themes of his philosophy, i.e., time, Being, event and language.;Why?;My claim is that Heidegger's thinking on spatiality underlies and provides the justification for, the changes in direction in his thinking throughout his career.;This thesis will examine how the importance of spatial thinking develops in Heidegger's early philosophy; how his conception of "place" and "space" operates and changes in his middle period; and how Heidegger examines spatiality in his late writings. (Abstract shortened by UMI.).