A theory of the aphorism : from Confucius to Twitter /
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 li...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2019]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.