Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Symmetry, asymmetry, and literary humanism
  • Two famous asymmetrists
  • Six claims of symmetry
  • Reading the world: structural analogy
  • Creating the world: the performative principle
  • Naming and renaming the world
  • Figuring (out) the world: tropes and tropology
  • Style and virtue
  • Conclusion: the love of words.