Matches: a light book

by Chrostowska, S. D., (Sylwia Dominika)

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Full title :Matches : a light book / S.D. Chrostowska.

Summary

It takes any number of forms. Epigrams. Aphorisms. Fragments. Sayings. Dicta. Sententiae. Facetiae. Pearls of wisdom. Fractions of truth. Maxims. Definitions. Jottings. Miscellaneous musings. Meditations. Ricordi. Pensées. Ephemera. Miniatures. Sketches. Vignettes. Denkbilder. Capriccios. Tiny 'fires without flames' ... In returning to these genres, Matches goes back to the drawing board of modern critique. It sets out to rekindle short-form literary-philosophical reflection, with roots in the Antiquity of Heraclitus and Hippocrates, apogee in the French moralistes (La Rochefoucauld, Pascal, Chamfort ...), and late splendour in German letters (Nietzsche, Kraus, Jünger ...). Moving from art and aesthetics to philosophies past and present, through natural and technological landscapes, beneath the constellations of politics, history and ethics, along the byways of contemporary literary culture--the slow reader with a little spare time will not fail to be struck. Here are pages to peruse and mistrust, texts to think with, a book to put down and ponder, to ponder and put down. A tome to keep handy, handle often, and strike repeatedly against the rough patches of the mind.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2019
Edition:Second edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Punctum Books
Place of Publication:Goleta, California
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2019

The Physical Object

Description:xxviii, 526 pages : : illustrations ; : 21 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781950192212, 1950192210
oclc:on1103581770
LC Classification:PN6269.A2
Dewey Decimal:828

Subjects

Aphorismes et apophtegmes aphorisms Aphorisms and apothegms Aphorisms and Proverbs as Topic Citations Essais (Genre littéraire) Essays Idea (Philosophy) Idée (Philosophie) Pensée Philosophie Philosophy Quotations quotations (texts) Thinking Thought and thinking