Once upon a time in the west : essays on the politics of thought and imagination / Jan Zwicky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zwicky, Jan, 1955- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Western--21st century--Philosophy.

Civilization, Western.

Civilization, Western--Philosophy.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (195 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Western civilization is over. So begins Jan Zwicky's trenchant exploration of the roots of global cultural and ecological collapse. Once Upon a Time in the West documents how a narrow epistemological style has left us blind to critical features of reality, and how the terrifying consequences of that shuttered vision are now unfolding.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title Page

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Preface

Auden as Philosopher: How Poets Think

Wilderness and Agriculture

Once upon a Time in the West: Heidegger and the Poets

Lyric Realism: Nature Poetry, Silence, and Ontology

The Ethics of the Negative Review

Defenders of the Faith

I Know What I Like ! And Nobody's Going to Tell Me Different

It's a Free Country, Isn't It ?

What about Bad Books?

The Art of the Review

Integrity and Ornament

The Novels of Pascal: A Review of Correction by Thomas Bernhard

Being Will Be Here, Beauty Will Be Here, But This Beauty That Visits Us Now Will Be Gone

A Note on Jane Jacobs's Systems of Survival, or Why We Will Not Be Able to Prevent Global Ecological Collapse

On Rules and Moral Beauty

Lyric, Narrative, Memory

The Syntax of Ethical Style

Ethics and Narrative

Ontological Attention and Lyric Form

Frost and Snow

Haydn's F-Flat

Acknowledgements

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Zwicky, Jan Once upon a Time in the West

ISBN:

9780228018308

0228018307

9780228018292

0228018293

OCLC:

1354766065