Venturing upon dizzy heights
Subtitle: lectures and essays on philosophy, literature, and the arts
By: Bruce Ross.
Publisher: Peter Lang; Peter Lang Pub Inc
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 121
ISBN-13: 9781433102875
Subjects: Aesthetics; Arts -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Lectures and essays on philosophy, literature, and the arts; title: Wordsworth's rainbow and ours : a kabbalist understanding of beauty; title: Being is believing : the underpinnings of Walter Benjamin's deconstruction of historicism; title: Dancing cranes and empty mind : the fusion of Wu-Chi and Tai-Chi in ancient Chinese mountain poetry; title: 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; title: Dances with bears : the beginnings of western art; title: Vincent van Gogh's irises : venturing upon dizzy heights; title: Figureless landscape : the persistence of the sublime in American landscape; title: Painting; title: The essence of haiku; title: A world out of balance and in balance : urban and nature haiku; title: Narratives of the heart : haibun; title: On defining haibun to a western audience; title: Tanka : celebrating the natural world and the postmodern condition.