Epimethean Imaginings
Philosophical and Other Meditations on Everyday Light
$92.71
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
30 May 2014
Summary
These essays, written in the spirit of Goethe’s Epimetheus who “traces the quick deed to the dim realm of form-combining possibilities”, display the depth and breadth of Tallis’s fascination with our lives. Whether discussing philosophical “hardy perennials” like time, or a mundane artefact like ink, Tallis challenges us to think differently about who we are and why we are.
The first part of the book – Analysis – dives into the deep-end to explore some of the big questions in phi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844658251 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844658252 |
| Author: | Raymond Tallis |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Imprint: | Acumen Publishing Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 30 May 2014 |
| Weight: | 366g |
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Raymond Tallis
Raymond Tallis trained as a doctor before going on to become Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Manchester, UK. He was elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences for his research in clinical neuroscience. He retired from medicine in 2006 to become a full-time writer. He has published fiction, poetry and over a dozen books of cultural criticism and philosophical anthropology including, most recently, Aping Mankind (2011). He has published two other collections of essays with Acumen, In Defence of Wonder (2012) and Reflections of a Metaphysical Flaneur (2013).
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