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Venturing upon dizzy heights :

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1433102870 (alk. paper)

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9781433102875 (alk. paper)

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Title Proper

Venturing upon dizzy heights :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

lectures and essays on philosophy, literature, and the arts /

First Statement of Responsibility

Bruce Ross

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Peter Lang,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c2008

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

viii, 121 p. :

Other Physical Details

ill. ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [113]-121)

Text of Note

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

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Aesthetics

Arts-- Philosophy

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Edition

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Ross, Bruce,1945-

Date of Transaction

20081015000000.0

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[Book]

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