On The Atlantic Edge

The "Highliner" series follows and prolongs the high line of world culture as viewed by its director, Prof Kenneth White. Consisting mainly of relatively short books, finely written and cogently argued, the series aims at the opening up of a new space, critical and creative, in writing and thought. On the Atlantic Edge opens the "Highliner" series with this self-contained series of talks from 2005. Conceiving the Atlantic Edge not as a political region, the result of historical circumstance, but as a place for fundamental propositions and a space for projects, White ranges, with sharp edge-knowledge, from the Greek mariner Pytheas to the fleet of coracles that once moored in Loch Broom, through Edinburgh's 18th century Enlightenment to Glenn Gould's musings on Bach in the 20th, and always with his eye on a far horizon.