Fundamental Field
Thought, Poetics, World
1st Edition
Published on 28. April 2021
184 pages
978-1-4744-8528-9 (ISBN)
Description
The Scottish poet Kenneth White and the Australian philosopher Jeff Malpas came together by chance when Malpas heard an interview with White on ABC radio. Malpas contacted White, and from there they exchanged books and ideas. They arranged to meet at White's place on the Breton coast, where a conversation about poetry and philosophy developed over four days. Inspired by poets from John Donne to Hölderlin, and philosophers from Nietzsche to Heidegger, they discussed the world, place, narrative, language and politics. This book records that conversation.
The Fundamental Field is made up of two essays: the first is by White on Malpas; the second is by Malpas on White. The volume closes with a set of three new philosophical poems by White.
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Content
- Cover
- Front matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- I. Talking Topology in the Finisterras
- Kenneth White
- Prologue
- Day 1: Ploughing through the problematics
- Day 2: Crisis and Catastrophe in Philosophy
- Day 3: Crisis and Catastrophe in Poetry
- Day 4: The general outlook
- II. 'Where Hegel Meets the Chinese Gulls': Place, Work and World
- Jeff Malpas
- Prologue
- First Sighting: The Question of World
- Second Sighting: Placing Thinking
- Third Sighting: Narrative and Place
- Fourth Sighting: The Dynamics of Place
- Fifth Sighting: The Language of the World
- Sixth Sighting: Poetics, Politics and Critique
- III. Three Philosophical Poems
- Kenneth White
- The Etna Letters
- Nietzsche in Nice
- At Skjolden
- Epilogue
- Biographical Notes
- Jeff Malpas
- Kenneth White
- Bibliography
- Index
