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Jan Zwicky

January 01, 1970

Janine Louise Zwicky CM (born 10 May 1955) is a Canadian philosopher, poet, essayist, and musician. She was appointed to the Order of Canada in June 2022.[1]

Jan Zwicky
CM
Born (1955-05-10) 10 May 1955 (age 68)
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Occupations
  • Poet
  • philosopher
  • musician
SpouseRobert Bringhurst

Life and career edit

Zwicky received her BA from the University of Calgary and earned her PhD at the University of Toronto in 1981 where her studies focussed on the philosophy of logic and science. She subsequently taught philosophy at Princeton University; philosophy and interdisciplinary humanities at the University of Waterloo; philosophy at the University of Western Ontario; philosophy, English, and creative writing at the University of New Brunswick; and philosophy at the University of Alberta.

Zwicky is Professor Emerita in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Victoria, where she taught both philosophy and interdisciplinary humanities courses from 1996 until 2009. She has served as a faculty member at the Banff Centre Writing Studio, has conducted numerous writing workshops, and served as an editor for Brick Books from 1985 to 2018. From 2017 through 2019, she was the series editor of Oskana Poetry and Poetics, an imprint of the University of Regina Press.

Philosophy edit

Zwicky's philosophical work challenges the hegemonic status of logico-linguistic analysis in 20th and 21st century Anglo-American philosophy. She is a realist who aims to defeat analytic skepticism by exploring the relationship between philosophical and poetic thinking, and by developing the notions of resonance and lyric understanding in ontology and epistemology:

"Lyric shares with the coherentists, pragmatists, and nihilists the view that foundationalism is intellectually bankrupt: that what analytic system cannot sustain is anything like the claim of naive realism. However, lyric shares with naive realism the view that skepticism is false. What it does not share is the view that it is demonstrably, within system, false." (Lyric Philosophy L264)

Her books, Lyric Philosophy and Wisdom & Metaphor, discuss but also enact this idea of resonance. They consist of many voices that range across diverse disciplines, so that Zwicky's aphoristic remarks on the left-hand pages are read with and against excerpts from the history of philosophy, musical scores, paintings, photographs, and poems on the right-hand pages. While Zwicky orders her remarks carefully and has a linear philosophical argument to make, each page is also designed to evoke remarks or images from other pages, prompting non-linear connections and directly demonstrating what she refers to as lyric structure, characterized by resonance.

Zwicky believes that Heraclitus, Plato, and Wittgenstein have purposefully constructed philosophical texts in this way before her. She cites Freud's distinction between primary and secondary processes, as well as Max Wertheimer's work in gestalt psychology, as support for the concepts she promotes. She references pieces of music, works of art, and natural eco-systems as objects that also exhibit lyric structure.

Zwicky presents logical analysis and lyric thinking as complementary and includes both in a broader, more total conception of reason. She believes that the Anglo-American notion of what constitutes good philosophy is excessively narrow, and criticizes Continental and poststructural views for their anti-realist vision of the world as nothing more than a projection of human thought and desire. Zwicky promotes balance, arguing that neglect of either logical or lyric thinking leads to our ontological, epistemological, ethical and environmental peril.

James O. Young, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Victoria has said: "There's a reasonable chance that people will be reading her work a century from now. This is something that one says about only a very small number of philosophers."[2]

Poetry edit

Zwicky's poetry is influenced by music in the classical European, blues, and jazz traditions.[3] It also deals with the natural world, and has often been cited for its intense lyricism. Thirty-seven Small Songs and Thirteen Silences has appeared in Swedish (translated by Roy Isaakson; Palaver Press). Numerous individual poems have been translated into Czech, French, German, Serbian, Spanish and Italian.

Among her many accolades, both Zwicky's Songs for Relinquishing the Earth and Robinson's Crossing were shortlisted for Governor General's Awards for Poetry. Songs for Relinquishing the Earth won the award in 1999. Robinson's Crossing won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 2004.

Her 2011 book, Forge, was shortlisted for the 2012 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize.[4]

Bibliography edit

Books edit

  • Wittgenstein Elegies – 1986, 2015 (2nd Ed.)
  • The New Room – 1989 (shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award)
  • Lyric Philosophy – 1992, 2011 (2nd ed.), 2014 (3rd ed.)
  • Songs for Relinquishing the Earth – 1996, 1998 (winner of the 1999 Governor General's Award for Poetry and shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award)
  • Twenty-One Small Songs – 2000
  • Wisdom & Metaphor – 2003, 2008 (2nd ed.) (shortlisted for the 2004 Governor General's Award for Nonfiction)
  • Robinson's Crossing – 2004 (winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize; shortlisted for the 2004 Governor General's Award for Poetry and the Pat Lowther Award)
  • Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences – 2005 (shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and the Pat Lowther Award)
  • Plato as Artist – 2009
  • Forge – 2011 (shortlisted for the 2012 Griffin Poetry Prize and the Pat Lowther Award)
  • Auden as Philosopher: How Poets Think - 2011
  • The Book of Frog – 2012
  • Vittoria Colonna - Selections from the Rime Spirituali with photographs by Robert Moody - 2014
  • Alkibiades' Love: Essays in Philosophy – 2015
  • Chamber Music: The Poetry of Jan Zwicky, ed. Darren Bifford and Warren Heiti - 2015
  • The Long Walk – 2016 (Oskana Poetry & Poetics Series, University of Regina Press)
  • Learning to Die: Wisdom in the Age of Climate Crisis - 2018 (co-authored with Robert Bringhurst) (University of Regina Press)
  • The Experience of Meaning - 2019
  • Fifty-six Ontological Studies with photographs by Robert Moody – 2020
  • Sixty-Seven Ontological Studies with photographs by Robert Moody – 2022
  • Once Upon a Time in the West – 2023

Essays edit

  • "Wittgenstein and the Logic of Inference", Dialogue, Vol. XXI, No. 4, December 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, March 1997
  • "Being, Polyphony, Lyric: An Open Letter to Robert Bringhurst", Canadian Literature, No. 156, Spring 1998
  • "The Geology of Norway", Harvard Review of Philosophy, Vol. 7, Spring 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) – 2002
  • "Wilderness and Agriculture" in The Eye in the Thicket: Essays at a Natural History (edited by Sean Virgo) – 2002
  • "Integrity and Ornament" in Crime and Ornament, edited by Bernie Miller and Melony Ward 2002
  • "Oracularity", Metaphilosophy, Vol. 34, No. 4, July 2003
  • "The Ethics of the Negative Review", Malahat Review, No. 144, Fall 2003
  • Introduction to Hard Choices: Climate Change in Canada, edited by Harold Coward and A.J. 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 – 2006
  • "Lyric Realism: Nature Poetry, Silence and Ontology", Malahat Review, No. 165, Winter 2008
  • "What Is Ineffable?", International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 26, No. 2, June 2012, pp 197–217
  • "Alcibiades' Love" in Philosophy as a Way of Life: Ancients and Moderns (edited by Michael Chase, Stephen R. L. Clark, and Michael McGhee) – 2013
  • "A Note on Jane Jacobs's Systems of Survival, or Why We Will Not Be Able to Prevent Global Ecological Collapse" in Brick: A Literary Journal, Vol. 105, Summer 2020, pp 48–53
  • "Frost and Snow", Eidos: A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, Vol. 5, 2021, pp 146–154 and Brick: A Literary Journal, Vol. 107, Summer 2021, pp 45–53

Interviews edit

  • "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 Jan Zwicky" – 2008 Interviewed by Jay Ruzesky in the Malahat Review, No. 165, Winter 2008
  • "Perfect Fluency" – 2011 Interviewed by Scott Pinkmountain in the Owen Wister Review
  • "The Griffin Poetry Prize Questionnaire: Jan Zwicky" – 4 June 2012, The National Post, Mark Medley

Conversations edit

  • "Contemplation and Resistance: A conversation [with Tim Lilburn]" excerpt reprinted in Lyric Ecology (edited by Mark Dickinson and Clare Goulet, 2010)
  • "Embodiment and Voice: A Conversation", with Darren Bifford and Warren Heiti, Brick 94 (Winter 2015), 15–23.

Commentary edit

  • Lyric Ecology: An Appreciation of the Work of Jan Zwicky, ed. Mark Dickinson and Clare Goulet – 2010

References edit

  1. ^ General, Office of the Secretary to the Governor (21 June 2022). "Order of Canada appointees - June 2022". The Governor General of Canada. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
  2. ^ Joy Poliquin. "Excellence in Teaching Awards. Philosopher/poet wins humanities teaching award". The Ring. University of Victoria's community newspaper. Retrieved 26 November 2011.
  3. ^ Medley, Mark (4 June 2012), "The Griffin Poetry Prize Questionnaire: Jan Zwicky", National Post, retrieved 31 August 2016
  4. ^ "Griffin Poetry Prize: 2012 Shortlist".

External links edit

 
Wikiquote has quotations related to Jan Zwicky.
  • Jan Zwicky reads from Robinson's Crossing and Songs for Relinquishing the Earth
  • Jan Zwicky reads "Night Music"
  • Excerpt from Jan Zwicky's Governor General's Award Speech. The Ring. University of Victoria's community newspaper. 1999
  • Introduction to Hard Choices: Climate Change in Canada
  • "Wilderness and Agriculture": An essay by Jan Zwicky
  • Literary Archives: A Guide to the Literary Fonds at Library and Archives Canada
  • Gaspereau Press Homepage
  • The Malahat Review 165
  • The Griffin Poetry Prize Questionnaire
  • Lyric Philosophy and Wisdom & Metaphor on Brush Education's website
  • Jan Zwicky at Brick Books
  • Jan Zwicky lecture "The Experience of Meaning" on YouTube
  • Jan Zwicky fonds (R11836) at Library and Archives Canada

January 01, 1970
zwicky, janine, louise, zwicky, born, 1955, canadian, philosopher, poet, essayist, musician, appointed, order, canada, june, 2022, cmborn, 1955, 1955, calgary, alberta, canadaoccupationspoetphilosophermusicianspouserobert, bringhurst, contents, life, career, p. Janine Louise Zwicky CM born 10 May 1955 is a Canadian philosopher poet essayist and musician She was appointed to the Order of Canada in June 2022 1 Jan ZwickyCMBorn 1955 05 10 10 May 1955 age 68 Calgary Alberta CanadaOccupationsPoetphilosophermusicianSpouseRobert Bringhurst Contents 1 Life and career 2 Philosophy 3 Poetry 4 Bibliography 4 1 Books 4 2 Essays 4 3 Interviews 4 4 Conversations 4 5 Commentary 5 References 6 External linksLife and career editZwicky received her BA from the University of Calgary and earned her PhD at the University of Toronto in 1981 where her studies focussed on the philosophy of logic and science She subsequently taught philosophy at Princeton University philosophy and interdisciplinary humanities at the University of Waterloo philosophy at the University of Western Ontario philosophy English and creative writing at the University of New Brunswick and philosophy at the University of Alberta Zwicky is Professor Emerita in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Victoria where she taught both philosophy and interdisciplinary humanities courses from 1996 until 2009 She has served as a faculty member at the Banff Centre Writing Studio has conducted numerous writing workshops and served as an editor for Brick Books from 1985 to 2018 From 2017 through 2019 she was the series editor of Oskana Poetry and Poetics an imprint of the University of Regina Press Philosophy editZwicky s philosophical work challenges the hegemonic status of logico linguistic analysis in 20th and 21st century Anglo American philosophy She is a realist who aims to defeat analytic skepticism by exploring the relationship between philosophical and poetic thinking and by developing the notions of resonance and lyric understanding in ontology and epistemology Lyric shares with the coherentists pragmatists and nihilists the view that foundationalism is intellectually bankrupt that what analytic system cannot sustain is anything like the claim of naive realism However lyric shares with naive realism the view that skepticism is false What it does not share is the view that it is demonstrably within system false Lyric Philosophy L264 Her books Lyric Philosophy and Wisdom amp Metaphor discuss but also enact this idea of resonance They consist of many voices that range across diverse disciplines so that Zwicky s aphoristic remarks on the left hand pages are read with and against excerpts from the history of philosophy musical scores paintings photographs and poems on the right hand pages While Zwicky orders her remarks carefully and has a linear philosophical argument to make each page is also designed to evoke remarks or images from other pages prompting non linear connections and directly demonstrating what she refers to as lyric structure characterized by resonance Zwicky believes that Heraclitus Plato and Wittgenstein have purposefully constructed philosophical texts in this way before her She cites Freud s distinction between primary and secondary processes as well as Max Wertheimer s work in gestalt psychology as support for the concepts she promotes She references pieces of music works of art and natural eco systems as objects that also exhibit lyric structure Zwicky presents logical analysis and lyric thinking as complementary and includes both in a broader more total conception of reason She believes that the Anglo American notion of what constitutes good philosophy is excessively narrow and criticizes Continental and poststructural views for their anti realist vision of the world as nothing more than a projection of human thought and desire Zwicky promotes balance arguing that neglect of either logical or lyric thinking leads to our ontological epistemological ethical and environmental peril James O Young Professor of Philosophy at the University of Victoria has said There s a reasonable chance that people will be reading her work a century from now This is something that one says about only a very small number of philosophers 2 Poetry editZwicky s poetry is influenced by music in the classical European blues and jazz traditions 3 It also deals with the natural world and has often been cited for its intense lyricism Thirty seven Small Songs and Thirteen Silences has appeared in Swedish translated by Roy Isaakson Palaver Press Numerous individual poems have been translated into Czech French German Serbian Spanish and Italian Among her many accolades both Zwicky s Songs for Relinquishing the Earth and Robinson s Crossing were shortlisted for Governor General s Awards for Poetry Songs for Relinquishing the Earth won the award in 1999 Robinson s Crossing won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 2004 Her 2011 book Forge was shortlisted for the 2012 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize 4 Bibliography editBooks edit Wittgenstein Elegies 1986 2015 2nd Ed The New Room 1989 shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award Lyric Philosophy 1992 2011 2nd ed 2014 3rd ed Songs for Relinquishing the Earth 1996 1998 winner of the 1999 Governor General s Award for Poetry and shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award Twenty One Small Songs 2000 Wisdom amp Metaphor 2003 2008 2nd ed shortlisted for the 2004 Governor General s Award for Nonfiction Robinson s Crossing 2004 winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize shortlisted for the 2004 Governor General s Award for Poetry and the Pat Lowther Award Thirty seven Small Songs amp Thirteen Silences 2005 shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and the Pat Lowther Award Plato as Artist 2009 Forge 2011 shortlisted for the 2012 Griffin Poetry Prize and the Pat Lowther Award Auden as Philosopher How Poets Think 2011 The Book of Frog 2012 Vittoria Colonna Selections from the Rime Spirituali with photographs by Robert Moody 2014 Alkibiades Love Essays in Philosophy 2015 Chamber Music The Poetry of Jan Zwicky ed Darren Bifford and Warren Heiti 2015 The Long Walk 2016 Oskana Poetry amp Poetics Series University of Regina Press Learning to Die Wisdom in the Age of Climate Crisis 2018 co authored with Robert Bringhurst University of Regina Press The Experience of Meaning 2019 Fifty six Ontological Studies with photographs by Robert Moody 2020 Sixty Seven Ontological Studies with photographs by Robert Moody 2022 Once Upon a Time in the West 2023 Essays edit Wittgenstein and the Logic of Inference Dialogue Vol XXI No 4 December 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 March 1997 Being Polyphony Lyric An Open Letter to Robert Bringhurst Canadian Literature No 156 Spring 1998 The Geology of Norway Harvard Review of Philosophy Vol 7 Spring 1999 Dream Logic and the Politics of Interpretation amp Once Upon a Time in the West Heidegger and the Poets in Thinking and Singing Poetry amp The Practice of Philosophy edited by Tim Lilburn 2002 Wilderness and Agriculture in The Eye in the Thicket Essays at a Natural History edited by Sean Virgo 2002 Integrity and Ornament in Crime and Ornament edited by Bernie Miller and Melony Ward 2002 Oracularity Metaphilosophy Vol 34 No 4 July 2003 The Ethics of the Negative Review Malahat Review No 144 Fall 2003 Introduction to Hard Choices Climate Change in Canada edited by Harold Coward and A J 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 amp Memory 2006 Lyric Realism Nature Poetry Silence and Ontology Malahat Review No 165 Winter 2008 What Is Ineffable International Studies in the Philosophy of Science Vol 26 No 2 June 2012 pp 197 217 Alcibiades Love in Philosophy as a Way of Life Ancients and Moderns edited by Michael Chase Stephen R L Clark and Michael McGhee 2013 A Note on Jane Jacobs s Systems of Survival or Why We Will Not Be Able to Prevent Global Ecological Collapse in Brick A Literary Journal Vol 105 Summer 2020 pp 48 53 Frost and Snow Eidos A Journal for Philosophy of Culture Vol 5 2021 pp 146 154 and Brick A Literary Journal Vol 107 Summer 2021 pp 45 53 Interviews edit 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 Jan Zwicky 2008 Interviewed by Jay Ruzesky in the Malahat Review No 165 Winter 2008 Perfect Fluency 2011 Interviewed by Scott Pinkmountain in the Owen Wister Review The Griffin Poetry Prize Questionnaire Jan Zwicky 4 June 2012 The National Post Mark Medley Conversations edit Contemplation and Resistance A conversation with Tim Lilburn excerpt reprinted in Lyric Ecology edited by Mark Dickinson and Clare Goulet 2010 Embodiment and Voice A Conversation with Darren Bifford and Warren Heiti Brick 94 Winter 2015 15 23 Commentary edit Lyric Ecology An Appreciation of the Work of Jan Zwicky ed Mark Dickinson and Clare Goulet 2010References edit General Office of the Secretary to the Governor 21 June 2022 Order of Canada appointees June 2022 The Governor General of Canada Retrieved 24 May 2023 Joy Poliquin Excellence in Teaching Awards Philosopher poet wins humanities teaching award The Ring University of Victoria s community newspaper Retrieved 26 November 2011 Medley Mark 4 June 2012 The Griffin Poetry Prize Questionnaire Jan Zwicky National Post retrieved 31 August 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize 2012 Shortlist External links edit nbsp Wikiquote has quotations related to Jan Zwicky Jan Zwicky reads from Robinson s Crossing and Songs for Relinquishing the Earth Jan Zwicky reads Night Music Excerpt from Jan Zwicky s Governor General s Award Speech The Ring University of Victoria s community newspaper 1999 Introduction to Hard Choices Climate Change in Canada Wilderness and Agriculture An essay by Jan Zwicky Literary Archives A Guide to the Literary Fonds at Library and Archives Canada Gaspereau Press Homepage The Malahat Review 165 The Griffin Poetry Prize Questionnaire Lyric Philosophy and Wisdom amp Metaphor on Brush Education s website Jan Zwicky at Brick Books Jan Zwicky lecture The Experience of Meaning on YouTube Jan Zwicky fonds R11836 at Library and Archives Canada Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Jan Zwicky amp oldid 1218522909, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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