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" Venturing upon dizzy heights : "
Bruce Ross
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BL
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642901
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dltt
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| Main Entry
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Ross, Bruce,1945-
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Venturing upon dizzy heights : : lectures and essays on philosophy, literature, and the arts /\ Bruce Ross
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Peter Lang,, c2008
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viii, 121 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm
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9781433102875 (alk. paper)
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: 1433102870 (alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [113]-121)
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| Contents
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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
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Aesthetics
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Arts-- Philosophy
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111/.85
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BH39.R673 2008
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