The Retreats of Thought
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The Retreats of Thought

Poems

  1. 80 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The Retreats of Thought

Poems

About this book

Kelly Cherry, who studied philosophy in graduate school at the University of Virginia, has never lost her deep love of the subject; The Retreats of Thought takes the reader through the philosophical domain. What do we really know of our world? Why is there anything at all? What is time? What is a person? What is mind? What are goodness and beauty? What does the artist seek? These and other problems are shrewdly examined in Cherry's passionate, skeptical, witty, and sometimes wry poems. Cherry places herself in the pragmatic tradition of philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce but admits to Platonic longings.

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Information

Publisher
LSU Press
Year
2009
eBook ISBN
9780807136553
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Preface
  6. Contents
  7. Proem
  8. A Throw of the Dice
  9. Space
  10. Time
  11. Where Is the Past?
  12. Running to Beat the Clock
  13. The Special Theory of Relativity
  14. String Theory
  15. A Stillness So Pure It Cannot Be Perceived
  16. Matter
  17. What Matters
  18. That the Sense of Being Here Is Unmediated and Is a Source of the Sense of Self
  19. Consciousness
  20. My Mother, Dying
  21. On the Extreme Paltriness of What We Can Know
  22. What Is Man?
  23. Self-Consciousness
  24. There Is No Higher Consciousness
  25. What, Then?
  26. To Descartes, On the Method
  27. The Mind-Body Problem
  28. Deceived
  29. Sex
  30. Aspects of the Poem
  31. Free Will
  32. The Examined Life
  33. Chance in a Universe of Values
  34. A Pause
  35. To a Fellow Graduate Student
  36. On Value
  37. The Problem of Meaning
  38. A Brief Review of What We Have Covered So Far
  39. The Varieties of Religious Experience
  40. On the Soul
  41. The Problem of Pain
  42. The Contagion of Grief: A Note on the Preceding Poem
  43. Good and Evil
  44. In Suffering Is No Deliverance nor Instruction but There Is an Opportunity
  45. On a Seldom If Ever Remarked and Difficult but Rewarding Application of Forgiveness
  46. First Reply to Plato
  47. Second Reply to Plato
  48. Fair Is Fair: A Dialogue between Husband and Wife
  49. On the Work Ethic
  50. A Flaw in the Argument from Design Not Previously Pointed Out, Although Many Flaws Have Been Pointed Out
  51. The Phenomenology of Beauty
  52. The Pursuit of Beauty and Truth
  53. Snow Globe for Ian Hacking
  54. How to Write a Sonnet
  55. What Is Truth?
  56. The Community of Minds
  57. Truth and Tolerance
  58. The Difference between Talent and Genius
  59. Greatness in Art
  60. To Tell the Truth
  61. Talking Back to Wittgenstein
  62. Apologia Pro Vita Sua
  63. That Contradicting the Law of Contradiction Does Not Have to Entail Mysticism
  64. The Truth
  65. Regarding Our Children
  66. A Theory of Everything
  67. A Final Reflection
  68. Postscript