Author: Joseph Joubert
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Category : Aphorisms and apothegms
Languages : fr
Pages : 188

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Author: Joseph Joubert
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Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Author: Joseph Joubert
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9781590171486
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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The elusive French luminary Joseph Joubert is a great explorer of the mind's open spaces. Edited and translated by Paul Auster, this selection from Joubert's notebooks introduces a master of the enigmatic who seeks "to call everything by its true name" while asking us to "remember everything is double." "Joubert speaks in whispers," Auster writes. "One must draw very close to hear what he is saying."

Author: Joseph Joubert
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Category : Aphorisms and apothegms
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Author: Joseph Joubert
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Andrew Hui
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691210756
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Aphorisms-- 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 literary form. What are its origins? How did it develop? How do religious or philosophical movements arise from the enigmatic sayings of charismatic leaders? And why do some of our most celebrated modern philosophers use aphoristic fragments to convey their deepest ideas? In A Theory of the Aphorism, Andrew Hui crisscrosses histories and cultures to answer these questions and more. With clarity and precision, Hui demonstrates how aphorisms-- ranging from China, Greece, and biblical antiquity to the European Renaissance and nineteenth century--encompass sweeping and urgent programs of thought. Constructed as literary fragments, aphorisms open new lines of inquiry and horizons of interpretation. In this way, aphorisms have functioned as ancestors, allies, or antagonists to grand systems of philosophy. Encompassing literature, philology, and philosophy, the history of the book and the history of reading, A Theory of the Aphorism invites us to reflect anew on what it means to think deeply about this pithiest of literary forms.

Author: Georges Joubert
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Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Author: Matthew Arnold
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Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Author: Ernest Dimnet
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Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Author: George Henry Calvert
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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