Jan Zwicky es una poeta y filósofa cuyas obras exploran las profundas conexiones entre el lenguaje, el pensamiento y el mundo. Su poesía es conocida por su profundidad intelectual y precisión poética, a menudo profundizando en temas como la percepción, el conocimiento y la relación de la humanidad con la naturaleza. En sus escritos filosóficos, Zwicky investiga la metáfora y el lirismo como herramientas fundamentales para la comprensión, uniendo la estética literaria con la indagación filosófica. Su enfoque ofrece a los lectores una perspectiva única sobre la naturaleza de la existencia y el poder del lenguaje para darle forma.
Western civilization is over. So begins Jan Zwicky's trenchant exploration of the roots of global cultural and ecological collapse. Once Upon a Time in the West documents how a narrow epistemological style has left us blind to critical features of reality, and how the terrifying consequences of that shuttered vision are now unfolding.
Renowned typographer and poet Robert Bringhurst brings clarity to the art of typography with this masterful style guide. Combining practical, theoretical, and historical, this book is a must for graphic artists, editors, or anyone working with the printed page using digital or traditional methods. Having established itself as a standard in its field The Elements of Typographic Style is house manual at most American university presses, a standard university text, and a reference work in studios of designers around the world. It has been translated into italian and greek, and dutch.