A Theory of the Aphorism : From Confucius to Twitter /

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An engaging look at the aphorism, the shortest literary form, across time, languages, and culturesAphorisms-or philosophical short sayings-appear everywhere, from Confucius to Twitter, the Buddha to the Bible, Heraclitus to Nietzsche. Yet despite this ubiquity, the aphorism is the least studied lite...

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Autor principal: Hui, Andrew (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2019]
Temas:
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
Adages.
Analects.
Aristotle.
Blaise Pascal.
Cartesian philosophy.
China.
Christian poetics.
Confucius.
Desiderius Erasmus.
European Renaissance.
European thinkers.
Francis Bacon.
Friedrich Nietzsche.
Gospel of Thomas.
Heraclitus.
Jesus.
Pensées.
Plato.
Twitter.
analog aphorism.
ancient proverbs.
antiquity.
aphorism.
aphorisms.
classical culture.
clickbaits.
commentary.
continuous writing.
conversations.
cultural network.
discursive philosophy.
fragment.
fragments.
headlines.
hermeneutics.
human intellect.
inquiry.
intelligible thought.
interpretation.
literary forms.
literary fragments.
logos.
long-form publications.
maxims.
modernity.
natural history.
philology.
philosophy.
redemption.
sayings.
scriptures.
self-discovery.
soteriology.
thought.
twitterature.
verbal fragments.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: A Line
  • 1. Confucius: The master wishes to be silent
  • 2. Heraclitus: What is hidden
  • 3. The Gospel of Thomas: What is revealed
  • 4. Erasmus and Bacon: Antiquity and the new science
  • 5. Pascal: The fragments of infinity
  • 6. Nietzsche: The fragments of the unfinished
  • Epilogue: A Circle
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliographic Essay
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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