A Revised Poetry of Western Philosophy

by Daniel Grandbois

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822964325
• ISBN13: 9780822964322
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.7" x 7.9"