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- Book Title
- Of Bridges
- ISBN
- 9780226735290
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Of Bridges : a Poetic and Philosophical Account
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
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- Item Weight
- 18.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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"Always," wrote Philip Larkin, "it is by bridges that we live." Bridges represent our aspirations to connect, to soar across divides. And it is the unfinished business of these aspirations that makes bridges such stirring sights, especially when they are marvels of ingenuity. A rich compendium of myths, superstitions, literary and ideological figurations, as well as architectural and musical illustrations, Of Bridges organizes a poetic and philosophical history of bridges into nine thematic clusters. Leaping in lucid prose between seemingly unrelated times and places, Thomas Harrison gives a panoramic account of the diverse meanings and valences of human bridges, questioning why they are built and where they lead. He investigates bridges as flashpoints in war and the mega-bridges of our globalized world. He probes links forged by religion between life's transience and eternity and the consolidating ties of music, illustrated in a case study of the blues. He illuminates the real and symbolic crossings facing migrants each day and the affective connections that make persons and societies cohere. In fine and intricate readings of literature, philosophy, art, and geography, Harrison engages in a profound reflection on how bridges form and transform cultural communities. Interdisciplinary and deeply lyrical, Of Bridges is a mesmerizing, vertiginous tale of bridges both visible and invisible, both lived and imagined.
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University of Chicago Press
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022673529x
ISBN-13
9780226735290
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Publication Name
Of Bridges : a Poetic and Philosophical Account
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2021
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
18.1 Oz
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Pn56.B78.H37 2021
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Harrison, a comparativist by training, scours the cultural landscapes of the world for meditations and mediations on the theme of real and imagined bridges. No matter one's area of interest or expertise, these nine intriguing and accessible essays will connect readers to old and new ways of thinking about what bridges do and often to what they might have already done. . . . Harrison combines keen observations with cogent analyses that will make readers think twice before crossing another bridge, whether it is over a highway or waterway or simply connects what one makes in one's mind., At the heart of Harrison's book is this desire to share the myriad and often invisible ways in which we experience and use the seemingly mundane architectural phenomenon of bridges in our lives. . . . Of Bridges offers us a transformative journey through its thoughtful pages., Keenly erudite, imaginative, interdisciplinary, and lyrical, Of Bridges is a monumental piece of scholarship. Harrison has written a Calvinoesque tale of bridges both invisible and visible, ontological and epistemological. Harrison draws upon his vast knowledge of Italian art and literature to offer a genealogy of thought reflected through and with bridges. In this work, Harrison himself becomes the bridge that he writes about, bringing together events and forms in unique and insightful ways., Of Bridges explores complex questions about the way in which our interaction with the physical world is bound (via bridges of thought, imagination, aspiration, despair) to the world of ideas and, thus, to the development of an ethical and aesthetic conduct of life. . . . Like all great books, each a bridge from lone writer to lone reader, Harrison's magisterial and lively Of Bridges calls us to attention and makes this difficult task more bearable. For there is no ultimate crossing over, only a temporary dwelling in between., Keenly erudite, imaginative, interdisciplinary, and lyrical, Of Bridges is a monumental piece of scholarship. Harrison has written a Calvino-esque tale of bridges both invisible and visible, ontological and epistemological. Harrison draws upon his vast knowledge of Italian art and literature to offer a genealogy of thought reflected through and with bridges. In this work Harrison himself becomes the bridge that he writes about, that brings together events and forms in unique and insightful ways., Of Bridges is dazzling investigation into the profound semantic and historical resonance of the seemingly simple word bridge, that passage between two points that is unique in its material, metaphoric, and philosophical properties. Harrison has chapters on every possible aspect of bridging, for example the musical bridge, the poetic bridge as in Hart Crane's famous poem by that title, the actual historic bridges of Greece and Rome, and the 'thought' bridges of Nietzsche and Heidegger. Throughout, Harrison's book is astonishingly learned, well-written, and imaginative. Bridges will never be the same after this brilliant study., Of Bridges is an extraordinarily sweeping study of bridges as cultural signifiers, extending its analysis from ancient Rome to the contemporary footbridges of major European cities, and providing much intricate detail along the way. This work is a tour-de-force in multidisciplinary cultural history, presenting the bridge as a simultaneously connective and separating structure, from which Harrison deduces an ensemble of political and ethical ideas. The scholarship is astounding in its particularity, the writing and interpretations brilliant., Of Bridges is a fascinating and profound meditation on the semantics and the symbolism of bridges, and the myriad connections to language, to music, to our creativity and the conundrums of the human condition. We are all between worlds and the span of a bridge is the architecture of our common reality., Of Bridges is a dazzling investigation into the profound semantic and historical resonance of the seemingly simple word bridge , that passage between two points that is unique in its material, metaphoric, and philosophical properties. Harrison has chapters on every possible aspect of bridging, for example, the musical bridge, the poetic bridge as in Hart Crane's famous poem by that title, the actual historic bridges of Greece and Rome, and the 'thought' bridges of Nietzsche and Heidegger. Throughout, Harrison's book is astonishingly learned, well written, and imaginative. Bridges will never be the same after this brilliant study., Of Bridges is an extraordinarily sweeping study of bridges as cultural signifiers, extending its analysis from ancient Rome to the contemporary footbridges of major European cities, and providing much intricate detail along the way. This work is a tour de force in multidisciplinary cultural history, presenting the bridge as a simultaneously connective and separating structure, from which Harrison deduces an ensemble of political and ethical ideas. The scholarship is astounding in its particularity, the writing and interpretations brilliant.
Table of Content
List of Illustrations Introduction 1. The Great Bridge-Building of God 2. Living on the Bridge 3. Musical Bridges 4. Bridge Brothers and Foes 5. Word Bridges 6. The Bridge as Gallows 7. Nietzsche's Bridges 8. Sea Bridges and Selves 9. Bridged Disconnection Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2021
Topic
General
Lccn
2020-032941
Dewey Decimal
818.608
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, History, Philosophy
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