The World on Edge

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THE WORLD ON EDGE
Title
Copyright
Dedication
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Prelude
PART 1 Sorting Out Edges
	Preface to Part One
	1. Borders and Boundaries
	Interlude I A Panoply of Edges
	2. Edges and Surfaces, Edges and Limits
	Interlude II Cusps, Traces, Veils
	3. Edges of Places and Events
	Interlude III Frames in/of Painting
PART 2 Constructed versus Naturally Given Edges
	Preface to Part Two
	4. Natural versus Artifactual Edges
	5. Wild Edges
	Interlude IV Listening to Edges in Music
	6. Landscape Edges
	7. Intermediate Edges: Parks, Gardens, Neighborhoods, Streets
PART 3 Edges of Body and Psyche, Earth and Sky
	Preface to Part Three
	8. At the Edges of My Body
	9. Being on Edge and Falling Apart
	10. From Earth’s Edge to the Sky and Beyond
PART 4 Parting Thoughts
	A Last Lesson: Not to Put Too Fine an Edge on Things
	Postlude: Why Edges Matter in Their Very Heterodoxicality
	Epilogue: Life on the Edge of Danger, Disaster, and Doom
	Afterword/Foreword: Thinking Edges, Edges of Thinking
Index