A Revised Poetry of Western Philosophy
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Pitt Poetry Series
ISBN-10
0822964325
ISBN-13
9780822964322
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Imprint
University of Pittsburgh Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 1st, 2016
Print length
112 Pages
Weight
158 grams
Dimensions
14.70 x 20.50 x 1.30 cms
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A prose poetry/flash fiction collection that interrogates Bertrand Russell's classic A History of Western Philosophy through scathing wit and acute observation.
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.
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