Collected Works of Kenneth White, Volume 2
Mappings: Landscape, Mindscape, Wordscape
1st Edition
Published on 2. March 2021
728 pages
978-1-4744-8133-5 (ISBN)
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Three collections of essays whose aim is to express the cartography and the experience of a live, open world
These essays all explore Scottish subjects and the wider issues of geopetics. This volume starts with On Scottish Ground by delving into forgotten cultural resources. Ideas of Order at Cape Wrath explores more socio-political considerations before opening out to a larger space of cosmological meditation in The Wanderer and his Charts.
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Mappings: Landscape, Mindscape, Wordscape
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Content
- Intro
- Title page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface to Collected Works, Volume 2
- A Note on the Texts
- On Scottish Ground
- Preface
- 1 The Alban Project
- 2 The Archaic Context
- 3 A Shaman Dancing on the Glacier
- 4 'Tam o' Shanter': A New Reading
- 5 Into the White World
- 6 The Birds of Kentigern
- 7 Scotland, Intelligence and Culture
- 8 The Scot Abroad
- 9 The Franco-Scottish Connection
- 10 Looking Out: From Neotechnics to Geopoetics
- 11 Scotland, History and the Writer
- 12 Towards a Scottish Republic
- 13 The High Field
- 14 North Atlantic Investigations
- 15 A Highland Reconnaissance
- 16 A Sense of High North
- 17 Talking Transformation
- 18 Kentigern on Atlantic Quay
- 19 The Fronting Shore
- Origins and Occasions
- Ideas of Order at Cape Wrath
- Preface
- 1 An Overview of Cultural History
- 2 The Perils and Possibilities of Democracy
- 3 Politics and Poetics
- 4 Working in the Outer Reaches
- 5 The Heritage and Role of a European Writer
- 6 The Nature of Radical Writing
- 7 A Fundamental Project
- 8 Ideas of Order at Cape Wrath
- 9 Renewing Local Perspectives
- 10 Common Sense and Uncommon Sense
- 11 The Relationship of Community to Cosmos
- 12 The Findhorn Letter
- 13 Pilot-Plan for a Highliner University
- 14 The Field of Edge-Knowledge
- 15 Tracks and Voices in the Wilderness
- 16 American Affinities
- 17 Meditations in the Atlantic Library
- 18 A Sense of Open World
- The Wanderer and his Charts
- Preface
- Part I Portrait of the Intellectual Nomad
- 1 Minds in Movement
- 2 Rimbaud, Glasgow and Ways West
- 3 On a Ridge between Two Seas
- 4 The Ruins and Lights of Ezra Pound
- Part II Crossing Space, Knowing Place
- 5 Letter from the Pyrenees
- 6 Aquitanian Affinities
- 7 Meditation in Winter
- 8 Reflections on a Logbook
- 9 The High Line
- 10 Writing the Road
- 11 Along the Atlantic Coast
- 12 A Wave And Wind Philosophy
- 13 The Complex Field
- 14 Elements of a New Cartography
- 15 What is World Writing?
- Part III A Cosmo-Cultural Project
- 16 The White Bag of Books
- 17 The New Europe
- 18 The Re-Mapping of Scotland
- 19 Aesthetic Considerations on the Calton Hill
- 20 The Music of the Landscape
- 21 An Outline of Geopoetics
