Threshold and Places: On Existential Spatiality 2 - Softcover

Sigurdson, Ola

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8869775569 ISBN 13: 9788869775567

Publisher: Mimesis, 2026

Synopsis

What does it mean to live in space-not just occupy it, but inhabit it meaningfully? Thresholds and Places explores how spatial experience shapes human existence, tracing the tension between moments of transition and sites of belonging. Thresholds are where we cross into the ambiguous and the unknown; places are where we find orientation and familiarity. Drawing on philosophy, literature, and lived experience, this book reveals how human beings are always situated-both between and within-these two existential dimensions. Through reflections on cities, homes, architecture, and the unnoticed textures of everyday life, it shows how space is not empty or neutral, but charged with meaning. This is an exploration of how we dwell, move, and transform-and how, in the interplay between thresholds and places, the heterogeneity of space finds its form.

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About the Author

Ola Sigurdson is professor of systematic theology at the Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo, Norway, and a member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. He is the author of more than thirty monographs and edited volumes in Swedish and English, has been guest researcher in Cambridge, Princeton, Oxford, Stellenbosch, and Hong Kong, and is active as a cultural journalist in Norway and Sweden. His most recent monograph in English is "Atmospheres in Everyday Life" (2024).

Edition details

• Publisher: Mimesis
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8869775569
• ISBN 13: 9788869775567
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 290