Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Preface viii
5. I. Talking Topology in the Finisterras
6. Prologue 1
7. Day 1: Ploughing Through the Problematics 6
8. Day 2: Crisis and Catastrophe in Philosophy 26
9. Day 3: Crisis and Catastrophe in Poetry 42
10. Day 4: The General Outlook 61
11. II. ‘Where Hegel Meets the Chinese Gulls’: Place, Work and World
12. Prologue 69
13. First Sighting: The Question of World 75
14. Second Sighting: Placing Thinking 81
15. Third Sighting: Narrative and Place 90
16. Fourth Sighting: The Dynamics of Place 96
17. Fifth Sighting: The Language of the World 112
18. Sixth Sighting: Poetics, Politics and Critique 120
19. III. Three Philosophical Poems
20. The Etna Letters Kenneth White 125
21. Nietzsche in Nice 134
22. At Skjolden 138
23. Epilogue 144
24. Biographical Notes 149
25. Bibliography 157
26. Index 166