Product Description

"On the Atlantic Edge" is a self-contained series of lectures delivered to the Edinburgh International Book Festival and, as first Hi-Arts International Fellow, in the Highlands of Scotland.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #80170 in Books
• Published on: 2006-06-12
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 118 pages

Review
The book's title is a reference to the idea of the "Atlantic Arc", a recognition by twenty-three European nations that they "shared a common space", a "space for projects". This notion is fundamental to White's ideas. For White, geography is more than maps (and maps are often more than drawings); it includes the geology of Hutton; the way the drift of tectonic plates ultimately reminds us of our connections with other cultures. White prefers to speak about "territories" as these imply "a relationship to the 'great outside', a new type of politics, and a renewed conception of culture". Stuart B Campbell (Northwords Now)

About the Author
Kenneth White is one of the most daring of Europe's writers, thinkers and teachers. Breaking out of the bounds of a limiting culture, he left Scotland for France in 1967. There he held first the Chair of 20th Century Poetics at the Sorbonne, later founding the International Institute of Geopoetics which now has centres in various countries, including Scotland and England.

Customer Reviews

An excellent introduction to the White world
This book consists of four lectures given by Kenneth White in various parts of Scotland in 2005. White sees Scotland as a nation making a distinctive cultural contribution to world culture, a theme he explores in the first of the lectures. However, this theme is broadened out in the remaining three lectures where White introduces and explores broader and more fundamental geo-concepts such as the 'Atlantic Arc' and the 'High North'. If you are familiar with White's ongoing exploration of geopoetics in his way-books, poetry and prose, then these lectures continue and expand the themes of these. If you have not read any of these earlier books or heard White speak, then this book provides an excellent introduction to both White and geopoetics.