On Not Founding Rome: The Virtue of Hesitation - Couverture souple

Schroeder, Steven

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1606086103 ISBN 13 : 9781606086100

Editeur : Cascade Books, 2009

Synopsis

This book is an attempt to critically embrace a tradition--a culture--in which the author was formed and against which he has often found himself in resistance, using academic disciplines in which he is well versed but about which he is deeply suspicious. This book began to come together as a book in a series of lectures on the history of Western thought at Shenzhen University in the People's Republic of China, an opportunity to cultivate disciplined criticism that might afford a second look at traditions behind the West which are being embraced all too quickly. In a time of acceleration, this book offers a meditation on the virtue of hesitation. The book is an invitation to philosophy and the history of ideas, but it is also a sustained critical reflection on the religious dimensions--explicit and implicit--of those ideas, with enough utopian vision left to imagine a city in which violence is not necessary.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Steven Schroeder is a poet and visual artist who teaches in Asian Classics and the Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults at the University of Chicago. His most recent poetry collection is Turn (2012).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cascade Books
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1606086103
• ISBN 13: 9781606086100
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 170
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible