Venturing upon dizzy heights lectures and essays on philosophy, literature, and the arts /

Main Author: Ross, Bruce, 1945-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Peter Lang, c2008.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10516980
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300 |a viii, 121 p. :  |b ill. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [113]-121). 
505 0 |a Wordsworth's rainbow and ours : a Kabbalist understanding of beauty -- Being is believing : the underpinnings of Walter Benjamin's deconstruction of historicism -- Dancing cranes and empty mind : the fusion of Wu-Chi and T'ai-Chi in ancient Chinese mountain poetry -- The willing subject and the non-willing subject in the Tao Te Ching and Nietzsche's hyperborean : Taoist and deconstructive challenges to the idea of virtue -- Dances with bears : the beginnings of western art -- Vincent van Gogh's irises : venturing upon dizzy heights -- Figureless landscape : the persistence of the sublime in American landscape painting -- The essence of haiku -- A world out of balance and in balance : urban and nature haiku -- Narratives of the heart : haibun -- On defining haibun to a western audience -- Tanka : celebrating the natural world and the postmodern condition. 
650 0 |a Aesthetics. 
650 0 |a Arts  |x Philosophy. 
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