rnash@laurentian.ca
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Wittgensteinian thought (mathematics, language, culture, value)
Twentieth century Jewish thought (Rosenzweig, Buber, Heschel, Levinas)
Presocratic philosophers as poetic thinkers seen in the context of ancient Greek and Middle- - Eastern cultures
Cross-cultural exploration of Asian philosophies (Confucius, Buddha, Laotze)
Environmental ethics
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
Settlement in a School of Whales, Fredericton: Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1983
Psalms from the Suburbs, Kingston: Quarry Press, 1986
Night Flying, Fredericton: Fiddlehead Poetry Books – Goose Lane Editions, 1990
Ethics, Science, Technology and the Environment: Study Guide and Reader, Athabasca: Athabasca University Press, 1993
In the Kosher Chow Mein Restaurant, Sudbury: Your Scrivener Press, 1996
Uncivilizing, Toronto: Insomniac Press, 1997
Editor, Northern Prospects: An Anthology of Northeastern Ontario Poetry, Sudbury: Your Scrivener Press, 1998
Once I Was a Wheelbarrow, Calgary: Bayeux Arts, 2000
The Poetry of Prayer, 2nd expanded edition, Harleston, U.K.: Edgeways Books, 2004
Something Blue and Flying Upwards: New and Selected Poems, Sudbury: Your Scrivener Press, 2006