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222: Aphorisms & Reflections, Volume 1

222: Aphorisms & Reflections, Volume 1

Carter, Steven

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0761840508
ISBN13: 9780761840503
Publisher: Hamilton Books
Published: Mar 20 2008
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.37 Width: 5.05 Depth: 6.97
Language: English
222: Aphorisms & Reflections is an attempt to breathe new life into the art of the aphorism and the brief reflection (or meditation), brought to near-perfection in Western culture over the last five centuries by Pascal, La Rochefoucauld, Lichtenberg, Nietzsche, Kafka, E.M. Cioran, Karl Kraus, Fernando Pessoa, and many others. About four in ten of the entries in 222 consist of conversations between Steven Carter and aphorists of the past, including many of the above. In publishing this initial volume of a projected multi-volume work, Carter hopes to join the ranks of current aphorists and anthologists-James Richardson and James Geary, to name two-whose recent works help to further the grand tradition of the aphorism, which began in ancient Greece with Hippocrates, the West's first known aphorist. While 222 is primarily intended for a general college-educated audience, everyone can enjoy a good aphorism-as the Americans Josh Billings, Will Rogers, and especially Mark Twain have shown.

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