Secrets of the oracle: a history of wisdom from Zeno to Yeats
"What is wisdom? Where does it come from? Where can we find it? And what does it mean in our lives? In Secrets of the Oracle, W. David Shaw explores these questions by turning to the works of wisdom writers, whose words retain their meaning and transformative power even centuries after they wer...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "What is wisdom? Where does it come from? Where can we find it? And what does it mean in our lives? In Secrets of the Oracle, W. David Shaw explores these questions by turning to the works of wisdom writers, whose words retain their meaning and transformative power even centuries after they were written." "Wisdom literature exists in two shaping forms - the aphorism, geared towards the past, and the oracle, a revolutionary impulse looking to the future. Secrets of the Oracle discusses both types of wisdom, finding them in the works of poets and philosophers from Tennyson and Zeno to Yeats and George Berkeley, from Browning and Schleiermacher to T.S. Eliot and F.H. Bradley. The book also discusses the contribution to wisdom of Jesus and the author of Ecclesiastes, of Abraham Lincoln and Norman Maclean. Part celebration of wisdom found and part lament for wisdom lost, Secrets of the Oracle is convincing in its assertion that wisdom articulates what is and offers creative visions of the future."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Beschreibung: | X, 387 S. |
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| adam_text | W. DAVID SHAW SECRETS OF THE ORACLE A HISTORY OF WISDOM FROM ZENO TO
YEATS UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS TORONTO BUFFALO LONDON CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS IX INTRODUCTION 3 PART ONE: AN OWL FOR APOLLO: WISDOM
AND THE POETS 13 1 DESCENT OF THE OWL: PHILOSOPHY AMONG THE POETS 15 2
TENNYSON AND ZENO: THREE INFINITIES 39 3 HOW POETS DIE TO TIME: THE
SUBLIME ORACLE 62 4 MAKING PEACE WITH TIME: THE BEAUTIFUL ORACLE 84 5
THE RUINS OF TIME: THE GROTESQUE ORACLE 97 PART TWO: HOMAGE TO WISDOM:
FROM DELPHI TO ZEN 119 6 WISDOM AND THE LOGOS: JOHN S GOSPEL TO FOUR
QUARTETS 121 7 GNOSTIC WISDOM: PARABLE AND KOAN 127 8 PARADOX AND
ORACLE: CRUCIBLE VERSUS MIRROR 140 9 COPY-SPEECH AND COUNTER-LOVE:
WORDSWORTH AND FROST 155 10 A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT AND JOYCE S THE
DEAD 167 VIII CONTENTS PART THREE: OWLS, BULLS, AND SERPENTS: WISDOM OR
GUILE? 185 11 THE WISE OWL: GEORGE ELIOT S ARRESTED WIT 187 12 THE
SERPENT OF IRONY: WISDOM OR GUILE? 206 13 GROUCHO MARX TO BERNARD SHAW:
THE IRISH BULL 228 14 ORACLES OF WIT: OSCAR WILDE AND NORTHROP FRYE 246
PART FOUR: WISDQM AT GETTYSBURG: REWRITING THE ORACLES 273 15 FROM
DELPHI TO GETTYSBURG: CHANGING THE COVENANT 277 16 COLERIDGE AND HUXLEY:
EXPERIMENT OR DECREE? 298 17 EVOLVING ORACLES: NEWMAN, BROWNING, AND
SHAKESPEARE 315 18 AN UNDERGROUND ORACLE: LOOK IN YOUR HEART AND WRITE
336 WORKS CITED 361 INDEX 375
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