Theory of the Aphorism (eBook)

From Confucius to Twitter

Andrew Hui (Autor)

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2019
272 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19055-6 (ISBN)

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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?

Andrew Hui is associate professor of humanities at Yale-NUS College, Singapore. He is the author of The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature.

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An engaging look at the aphorism, the shortest literary form, across time, languages, and culturesAphorisms-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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.3.2019
• Zusatzinfo: 15 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
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• Schlagworte: adage • Adages • Adobe • Alexander Nehamas • Analects • analog aphorism • Ancient Philosophy • ancient proverbs • Anecdote • Antinomy • Antiquity • aphorism • Aphorisms • Aphorismus • Apologetics • Apophasis • Aristotle • Arthur Schopenhauer • Biblical Criticism • Blaise Pascal • Book • Buddhism • Calligraphy • Cartesian philosophy • China • Christian poetics • Church Fathers • classical culture • Clement of Alexandria • clickbaits • Commentary • Concept • Confucianism • Confucius • continuous writing • Conversations • critique • Critique of Pure Reason • Cultural network • Desiderius Erasmus • dieu • Difference and Repetition • discursive philosophy • Doxography • Early Christianity • Emptiness • etymology • European Renaissance • european thinkers • Exegesis • Fragment • Fragments • Francis Bacon • French moralists • Friedrich Nietzsche • Friedrich Schleiermacher • Gnosticism • Gospel of Thomas • Headlines • Hebrew Bible • Heraclitus • Heresy • hermeneutics • human intellect • Inquiry • Instruction of Amenemope • intelligible thought • Interpretation • Jacques Derrida • Jansenism • Jesus • Jews • Know Thyself • Laozi • Lecture • literary forms • literary fragments • Literature • Logos • long-form publications • Martin Heidegger • maxims • Meditations • Metaphor • Modernity • Morality • Nachlass • narrative • Natural History • Neo-Confucianism • Nicholas of Cusa • Nietzsche and Philosophy • Novum Organum • on the genealogy of morality • Orthodoxy • parable • Parmenides • Pathos • Pensées • petrarch • phenomenon • Philology • Philosopher • philosophical fragments • Philosophy • Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks • Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche • Philosophy of Life • Plato • Polemic • Pre-Socratic Philosophy • Prose • proverb • Publication • Reality • reason • Redemption • Religion • religious text • rhetoric • Robert Pogue Harrison • Sanskrit • Sayings • scriptures • Self-discovery • Soteriology • Sutra • Tao Te Ching • Textual criticism • The Gay Science • Theology • theory • Theory of Forms • The Philosopher • Thomas the Apostle • Thought • truism • Twilight of the Idols • Twitter • twitterature • verbal fragments • Walter Benjamin • Wisdom Literature • Writing • Zhuangzi (book) • Zhu Xi
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19055-0 / 0691190550
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19055-6 / 9780691190556