Sarastro's Cave: Letters from the Recent Past - Couverture rigide

Velkley, Richard

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0881467804 ISBN 13 : 9780881467802

Editeur : Mercer University Press, 2021

Synopsis

I hoped to use these letters to make a book, in which they would retain their character as individual utterances, although they would become parts of a larger whole. So writes Clovis Mendling, professor of history at a Southern university, bequeathing his letters as an unfinished project to a friend shortly before he mysteriously disappears. Much is at stake in these letters for Mendling, as they reflect on a personal crisis in which he discovers philosophical, political, musical, and literary significance. By making an epistolary novel out of his letters he hopes to prove to himself that he is truly a living human and not a mechanical simulation. At the same time, his moral and intellectual world unravels as he questions the tenets of Enlightenment thought, especially Freemasonry, his scholarly focus. Although moved by the music of Mozart's Sarastro, teacher of self-mastery and inner harmony through love, a bewitched and confused Mendling plunges into the mind's netherworld.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Richard Velkley was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and raised in northern Kentucky. Educated at Cornell, Penn State, and Heidelberg, Germany, he has taught philosophy at Tulane University since 2007. Velkley has authored three other books and edited five, all on topics in the history of modern philosophy. He resides in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mercer University Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0881467804
• ISBN 13: 9780881467802
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 277
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible