Grounding a World: Essays on the Work of Kenneth White - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0952933721 ISBN 13: 9780952933724

Publisher: Alba Editions, 2005

Synopsis

This is the first comprehensive analysis in the English language of the work of Kenneth White, the internationally renowned Scottish poet, thinker, essayist and teacher who lives in France but considers himself a citizen of the world.

This essay-book contains fresh insights into his work by scholars and authors from Scotland, France, Morocco, Italy and England who have unrivalled knowledge of this live mind and original voice whose poetics and teachings open up a new field of culture and present a way of life founded on a sensitive and intelligent relationship to the Earth.

These essays follow Kenneth White on his journeys from the city to open country, from Scotland to South-East Asia, from Labrador to Arab lands, and explore the intellectual pathways by which he goes beyond both Western and Eastern thinking to found and ground a new world outlook.

They examine his realtionship to self and creativity, shamanism and Buddhism, modernism and the literary canon, and his ability to pull the doors of the mind off their hinges and exult in grounded living.

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From the Publisher

Kenneth White himself contributes a new essay which sets out his ideas for radical cultural renewal based on geopoetics, that theory-practice which is already showing its stimulating applicability to several domains of research and creation.

Grounding a World is a rich and accessible sourcebook for both serious students of the work of Kenneth White and those new to it who are on the look-out for something with real innovative power on the intellectual, literary, cultural and political horizon.

Edition details

• Publisher: Alba Editions
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0952933721
• ISBN 13: 9780952933724
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Bowd Gavin, Forsdick Charles, Bissell Norman