The world in a phrase : a brief history of the aphorism /: a brief history of the aphorism. (2006)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- The world in a phrase : a brief history of the aphorism /: a brief history of the aphorism. (2006)
- Main Title:
- The world in a phrase : a brief history of the aphorism
- Further Information:
- Note: James Geary.
- Other Names:
- Geary, James, 1962-
- Contents:
- 1. Guessing is more fun than knowing: the confessions of an aphorism addict -- 2. We are what we think: ancient sages, preachers, and prophets: Lao-tzu ; Buddha ; Confucius ; Jesus ; Muhammad ; The Zen Masters -- 3. A man is wealthy in proportion to the things he can do without: Greek and Roman stoics: Diogenes ; Epicurus ; Seneca ; Epictetus ; Marcus Aurelius -- 4. Upon the highest throne in the world, we are seated, still, upon our arses: French and Spanish moralists: Michel de Montaigne ; Baltasar Gracian ; Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld ; Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues ; Sebastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort ; Joseph Joubert -- 5. Good and evil are the prejudices of God: heretics, dissenters, and skeptics: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg ; Arthur Schopenhauer ; Friedrich Nietzsche ; Ludwig Wittgenstein ; E.M. Cioran -- 6. The lack of money is the root of all evil: the rise of the American one-liner: Ralph Waldo Emerson ; Henry David Thoreau ; Mark Twain -- 7. Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; the proper study of mankind is man: in praise of light verse: Alexander Pope ; William Blake ; Emily Dickinson ; Samuel Hoffenstein ; Dorothy Parker ; Dr. Seuss -- 8. In the beginning was the word, at the end just the cliche: the aphorism today: Karl Kraus ; Antonio Porchia ; Malcolm de Chazal ; Stanislaw Jerzy Lec ; Barbara Kruger ; Jenny Holzer -- Afterisms.
- Publisher Details:
- New York : Bloomsbury Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck
- Publication Date:
- 2006
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (ix, 229 pages)
- Subjects:
- 808.88/2
Reference -- General
Aphorisms and apothegms
Aphorisms and apothegms -- History and criticism
Aphorisms and apothegms
Reference works
Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781608197620
- Related ISBNs:
- 160819762X
158234616X
9781582346168 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-228).
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