Venturing upon dizzy heights lectures and essays on philosophy, literature, and the arts /
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New York :
Peter Lang,
c2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Wordsworth's rainbow and ours : a Kabbalist understanding of beauty
- Being is believing : the underpinnings of Walter Benjamin's deconstruction of historicism
- Dancing cranes and empty mind : the fusion of Wu-Chi and T'ai-Chi in ancient Chinese mountain poetry
- 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
- Dances with bears : the beginnings of western art
- Vincent van Gogh's irises : venturing upon dizzy heights
- Figureless landscape : the persistence of the sublime in American landscape painting
- The essence of haiku
- A world out of balance and in balance : urban and nature haiku
- Narratives of the heart : haibun
- On defining haibun to a western audience
- Tanka : celebrating the natural world and the postmodern condition.