A Revised Poetry of Western Philosophy

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. 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 and revises his History.

About the author

Daniel Grandbois is the author of the prose poetry/flash fiction collection Unlucky Lucky Days, the art novel The Hermaphrodite: An Hallucinated Memoir, and the prose poetry collection Unlucky Lucky Tales. His work has appeared in Fiction, Boulevard, the Mississippi Review, Conjunctions, and Electric Lit, among others, and often includes collaborations with visual artists across the Americas.

Summary

A prose poetry/flash fiction collection that interrogates Bertrand Russell's classic A History of Western Philosophy through scathing wit and acute observation.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Grandbois
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2016
• EAN: 9780822964322
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-6432-2
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 201 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 159 g
• Series: Pitt Poetry; Pitt Poetry (Paperback); Pitt Poetry Series; Pitt Poetry; Pitt Poetry Series
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama