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Once upon a time in the West : essays on the politics of thought and imagination /
"Western civilization is over. So begins Jan Zwicky's trenchant exploration of the roots of global cultural and ecological collapse: a way of thinking that is also linked to some of the West's most noted achievements. The Renaissance merged imperial enterprise with Islamic algebra and...
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2023.
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Table of 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