In this Book
- A Revised Poetry of Western Philosophy
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Pitt Poetry Series
summary
Bertrand Russell finds himself in purgatory, tumbling through literal representations of the worlds of ideas he examined in his classic text, A History of Western Philosophy, gulping much-needed air, for example, from Empedocles’ bucket. Mistaking his erection for a planted flag, he declares the place Platonopolis, attempts to calculate his Pythagorean number, kills God (though he later sees evidence of His resurrection), and, Rousseau-like, turns away from reason and civilization, favoring the noble savage, only to march back into the concrete jungle as one of Nietzsche’s savage nobles. In the end, however, he is all jumbled up and clucking like Einstein’s cuckoo clock, until he perceives philosophy as music, hears its arguments as a symphonic procession of the electrochemical pulses produced within three-pound lumps—lumps self-amalgamated from the vomitus of stars—and revises his History.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. vii-viii
- Book One: Ancient
- Pythagoras
- pp. 3-4
- Heraclitus
- p. 5
- Empedocles
- pp. 6-7
- Anaxagoras
- p. 8
- Protagoras
- pp. 9-11
- Book Two: Catholic
- Gregory The Great
- pp. 26-27
- John The Scot
- pp. 28-30
- Book Three: Modern
- Machiavelli
- pp. 37-39
- Copernicus
- pp. 45-46
- Schopenhauer
- pp. 80-81
- Materials Used
- pp. 93-98
- Acknowledgments
- p. 99
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822982029
Related ISBN(s)
9780822964322
MARC Record
OCLC
961337615
Pages
109
Launched on MUSE
2017-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2016