The Fundamental Field

Name: The Fundamental Field
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SKU: 9781474485272
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Thought, Poetics, World

By Jeff Malpas and Kenneth White

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The Fundamental Field by Jeff Malpas and Kenneth White delves into the intricate relationship between human experience and the world, exploring how our understanding is shaped by both. It examines the interconnectedness of thought, environment, and language, offering philosophical insights into how we interpret our surroundings. This philosophical work addresses fundamental questions about the nature of reality and human cognition.
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This book may appeal to you if you are fascinated by the interplay between philosophy and psychology, offering deep insights into the nature of human experience and understanding. It engages with philosophical ideas in an accessible manner, helping to expand your perspective on the fundamental questions of life and consciousness.

Inspired by poets from John Donne to Hlderlin, and philosophers from Nietzsche to Heidegger,Scottish poet Kenneth White and Australian philosopher Jeff Malpasreflect onthe world, place, narrative, language and politics. The volume closes with a set of three new philosophical poems by White.

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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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781474485272

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 May 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Edinburgh University Press

Illustration: 3 black and white illustrations

Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 210g

Pages: 184

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Jeff Malpas Kenneth White Non-Fiction Philosophy & Psychology Philosophy & Stoicism

About the Author

Jeff Malpas is an Australian philosopher and is currently Emeritus Distinguished Professor at the University of Tasmania in Hobart and Distinguished Visiting Professor at LaTrobe University in Melbourne. He was founder, and until 2005, Director, of the University of Tasmania's Centre for Applied Philosophy and Ethics. His work is grounded in post-Kantian thought, especially the hermeneutical and phenomenological traditions, as well as in analytic philosophy of language and mind, and draws on the thinking of a diverse range of thinkers and writers including, most notably, Albert Camus, Donald Davidson, Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer. A Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities, he is the author, among other works, of Place and Experience (Routledge, 2018) and Heidegger's Topology (MIT, 2006). He lives in the Huon Valley in Tasmania.

Kenneth White was a Scottish poet, academic and writer. He published numerous works of poetry and prose, with volumes and essays in French as well as English. His work has also been translated into several languages. He was the recipient of many awards and honours, in Europe and Scotland, including the Grand Prix du Rayonnement Francais by the Academie francaise for his work as a whole (1985), the douard Glissant prize from the University of Paris VIII for his 'openness to the cultures of the world' (2004) and Prix de poesie Alain Bosquet for Les Archives du Littoral, a bilingual poetry collection (2011).