Intercultural Geopoetics in Kenneth White's Open World

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"Hashas' reading of Kenneth White's project is a worthwhile contribution to laying the foundation for a better understanding between cultures, namely the Arab-Islamic culture and Western culture."Khalid HajjiPresident of the Brussels Forum of Wisdom and World Peace"White's geopoetics deserves our attention in this hasty world that is losing values, connectedness, and humanness, and Hashas renders us this service intelligently in this work."Francesca M. CorraoProfessor of Arabic Language and Culture, LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome"Kenneth White's exploration of Arabic culture has been less developed than that of Asia and of the Inuit in the West. Hashas, who has been initiated to geopoetics by a former student of Kenneth White, seems naturally destined to pursue the path of the Poet and Thinker as developed also by the International Institute of Geopoetics."Michele DuclosRetired Senior Lecturer, Bordeaux Montaigne University, France; author of Kenneth White, nomade intellectual, poete du monde (2006)."Enthusiasts of White's ground-breaking synthesis of science, philosophy and poetry have long felt the need of a thorough academic structural outline of his thinking that would not only serve as a commentary on White's oeuvre, but also provide a template for taking geopoetics further. In Intercultural Geopoetics, Mohammed Hashas has written the book we have been waiting for; it is a considerable achievement."Elizabeth RimmerPoet and member of the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics"Intercultural Geopoetics in Kenneth White's Open World represents a valuable contribution to the study of space, intersecting in a homogeneous and harmonious way the different literary, philosophical and geocultural perspectives that a meticulous study of geopoetics requires."Simone SibilioReset, 30/01/2018