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The fundamental field : thought, poetics, world / Jeff Malpas and Kenneth White.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Malpas, Jeff, author.
- White, Kenneth, 1936- author.
- Series:
- Edinburgh scholarship online.
- Edinburgh scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Malpas, Jeff.
- White, Kenneth, 1936-.
- White, Kenneth.
- Poetry.
- Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (185 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- The Scottish poet Kenneth White and the Australian philosopher Jeff Malpas came together by chance when Malpas heard an interview with White on ABC radio. Malpas contacted White, and from there they exchanged books and ideas. They arranged to meet at White's place on the Breton coast, where a conversation about poetry and philosophy developed over four days. Inspired by poets from John Donne to Hölderlin, and philosophers from Nietzsche to Heidegger, they discussed the world, place, narrative, language and politics. This book records that conversation. It is made up of two essays: the first is by White on Malpas; the second is by Malpas on White. The volume closes with a set of three new philosophical poems by White.
- 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
- 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
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 7, 2021).
- ISBN:
- 1-3995-0210-7
- 1-4744-8528-6
- OCLC:
- 1252424284
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