Jan Zwicky
January Zwicky ( born May 10, 1955 in Northern Alberta, Canada ) is a Canadian philosopher, poet, essayist, and violinist.
Life
Zwicky January 1981 he received the B. A. at the University of Calgary and made the Ph.D. at the University of Toronto with a thesis entitled " A Theory of ineffability ." She then taught philosophy at Princeton University; Philosophy and interdisciplinary humanities at the University of Waterloo. She has largely taught creative writing and philosophy in North America and Europe: University of Western Ontario, University of New Brunswick, Banff Centre Writing Studio. She currently teaches philosophy at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. She is also a violinist with a strong interest in Baroque performance practice. As a violinist, she played with Canadian orchestras. Her passion for music and philosophy are often focused on their poetic works and their theoretical essays emphasize the overlap. Since 1986 she edited the poetry Bricks for books.
Zwicky was a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, 1996-2009, where she taught both philosophy and interdisciplinary humanities courses. In summer 2009, she quit her job at the university to lead writing projects in Quadra Iceland.
Publications
- Where Have We Been ( 1982)
- A Theory of ineffability (1982 )
- Wittgenstein Elegies (1986 )
- The New Room (1989 )
- Lyric Philosophy (1992 )
- Songs for Relinquishing the Earth (1998) - has won the " Governor General's Literary Award: Poetry" in 1999 won
- Twenty-one Small Songs ( 2000)
- Wisdom and Metaphor (2003)
- Contemplation and Resistance: A Conversation (with Tim Lilburn ) (2003 )
- Robinson 's Crossing (2004) - has the " Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize " won in 2005
- Thirty -seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences (2005)
- Plato as an Artist (2009)
- Neuverfassung to Lyric Philosophy 1992 (2010)
Essays
- XXI " Wittgenstein and the Logic of Inference ", Dialogue, Vol, No. 4, (1982)
- " Bringhurst 's Presocratics: Lyric and Ecology " in Poetry and Knowing: Speculative Essays and Interviews, edited by Tim Lilburn (1995 )
- "Plato 's Phaedrus: Philosophy as Dialogue With the Dead", Apeiron, vol 30, no. 1, (1997)
- "Being, Polyphony, Lyric: An Open Letter to Robert Bringhurst ," Canadian Literature, no. 156, (1998)
- "The Geology of Norway", Harvard Review of Philosophy, Vol 7 (1999)
- "Dream Logic and the Politics of Interpretation" & " Once Upon a Time in the West: Heidegger and the Poets " in Thinking and Singing: Poetry & The Practice of Philosophy ( edited by Tim Lilburn, with an introduction by Brian Bartlett ( including the work of Robert Bringhurst, Dennis Lee, Tim Lilburn, Don McKay and )) ( 2002)
- "Integrity and ornament " in Crime and Ornament, edited by Bernie Miller and Melony Ward ( 2002)
- " Oracularity " metaphilosophy, Vol 34, No. 4, (2003)
- " The Ethics of the Negative Review. " In: The Malahat Review, no. 144, (2003)
- Introduction to Hard Choices: Climate Change in Canada, edited by Harold Coward and AJ Weaver ( 2004)
- " Mathematical Analogy and Metaphorical Insight", The Mathematical Intelligencer, Vol 28, No. 2 (2006)
- " Lyric, Narrative, Memory" in A Ragged Pen: Essays on Poetry & Memory (includes works by Robert Finley, Patrick Friesen, Aislinn Hunter, Anne and Simpson) (2006)
- " Lyric Realism: Nature Poetry, Silence and Ontology ", Malahat Review, no. 165, (2008)
- " Alcibiades ' Love " in Philosophy as a Way of Life: Ancients and Moderns, edited by Michael Chase and Michael McGhee, Oxford: Blackwell, in press.
Interviews
- "There is No Place That Does Not See You " - 2002 Interviewed by Anne Simpson in Where the Words Come From: Canadian Poets in Conversation (edited by Tim Bowling )
- "The details: An Interview with January Zwicky " - 2008 Interviewed by Jay Ruzesky in the Malahat Review, no. 165, (2008)