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The Bower of Nil: A Narrative Poem
Paperback
ISBN13: 9780967042145
Publisher: Earthrise Press
Published: May 15 2009
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.17 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
2024 revised edition. Structured around classical Greek choral movements, the first section ponders themes from Japanese Buddhism, while the second and third survey Western philosophy from Aristotle and Plato through Descartes, Pascal, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Derrida, and others, in a powerfully dramatic grappling with philosophy, East and West.
Peter Marsh, an academic philosopher weighs modern life in a conversation with his friend, David Emerson, a businessman. Brought together after long separation by the brutal murder of Mary, Peter's wife, a time of devastating loss and crisis, their friendship inspires a dark night of the soul, during which Peter's meditations range over several hundred years of philosophy, politics, religion, social change, the dilemmas of existence, evoking a vision of the complexities of the 21st Century, the United Nations, and global governance.
This is a doorway into the future. Colored richly and satisfyingly with symbols that speak directly to the psyche-the way that artwork spoke to the illiterate in the Middle Ages. -Poems Niederngasse
Glaysher pays his readers the compliment of assuming that they will have at least a basic familiarity with the major world classics and philosophies of both East and West. -Manifold 44
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