| Description |
1 online resource (110). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Pitt poetry series
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Pitt poetry series.
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| Summary |
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, gulping much-needed air, for example, from Empedocles' bucket. Mistaking his erection for a planted flag, he declares the place Platonopolis, attempts to calculate his Pythagorean number, kills God (though he later sees evidence of His resurrection), and, Rousseau-like, turns away from reason and civilization, favoring the noble savage, only to march back into the concrete jungle as one of Nietzsche's savage nobles. 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--lumps self-amalgamated from the vomitus of stars--and revises his History. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Prose poems, American.
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Prose poems, American. |
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American poetry -- 21st century.
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American poetry. |
| Chronological Term |
21st century |
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2000-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Poetry.
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Poetry.
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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Grandbois, Daniel. Poems. Selections. Revised poetry of Western philosophy. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2016] 0822964325 (OCoLC)948340017 |
| ISBN |
9780822982029 (electronic book) |
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0822982021 (electronic book) |
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9780822964322 |
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0822964325 |
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