| Description |
1 online resource (185 pages) |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- I. Talking Topology in the Finisterras -- Prologue -- Day 1: Ploughing Through the Problematics -- Day 2: Crisis and Catastrophe in Philosophy -- Day 3: Crisis and Catastrophe in Poetry -- Day 4: The General Outlook -- II. 'Where Hegel Meets the Chinese Gulls': Place, Work and World -- Prologue -- First Sighting: The Question of World -- Second Sighting: Placing Thinking -- Third Sighting: Narrative and Place -- Fourth Sighting: The Dynamics of Place -- Fifth Sighting: The Language of the World -- Sixth Sighting: Poetics, Politics and Critique -- III. Three Philosophical Poems -- The Etna Letters Kenneth White -- Nietzsche in Nice -- At Skjolden -- Epilogue -- Biographical Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Inspired by poets from John Donne to Hölderlin, and philosophers from Nietzsche to Heidegger,Scottish poet Kenneth White and Australian philosopher Jeff Malpasreflect on the world, place, narrative, language and politics. The volume closes with a set of three new philosophical poems by White |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 17, 2021) |
| Subject |
Malpas, Jeff.
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White, Kenneth, 1936-
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| SUBJECT |
White, Kenneth, 1936- fast |
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Poetry.
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poetry.
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Poetry
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
White, Kenneth, 1936-
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| ISBN |
1474485286 |
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9781474485289 |
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