Fragments: the collected wisdom of Heraclitus
by Heraclitus, Ephesius, Haxton, Brooks
fromPenguin classics
Beautifully intense, poetic translations of one of the world's most deeply influential thinkers The Collected Wisdom of Heraclitus In the sixth century B.C.--twenty-five hundred years before Einstein--Heraclitus of Ephesus declared that energy is the essence of matter, that ever…
An informative guide to the beginnings of over 500 ordinary things, from the brown paper bag to animal crackers.
An informative guide to the beginnings of over 500 ordinary things, from the brown paper bag to animal crackers.
An informative guide to the beginnings of over 500 ordinary things, from the brown paper bag to animal crackers.
For the first time in scholarship, this essay collection interprets modernity through the literary micro-genres of the aphorism, the epigram, the maxim, and the fragment. Situating Friedrich Nietzsche and Oscar Wilde as forerunners of modern aphoristic culture, the collection an…
"Interglacial: New and Selected Poems & Aphorisms includes 50 new poems and 150 new aphorisms as well as a generous selection of poems and aphorisms from all of Richardson's previous books, many of which have been out of print for years. Its publication, long overdue, will estab…
