Luke hamill paul valery notebooks

Editor in Chief: Brian Stimpson- Associate Editors: Paul Gifford and Robert Pickering- Translated by Paul Gifford, Siân Miles, Robert Pickering and Brian Stimpson

by Paul Valéry (Author)Brian Stimpson (Editor)

©2000Others 658 Pages

Theology & Philosophy

Summary

The Cahiers/Notebooks of Paul Valéry are a unique form of writing.

They reveal Valéry as one of the most radical and creative minds of the twentieth century, encompassing a wide range of investigation into all spheres of human activity. His work explores the arts, the sciences, philosophy, history and politics, investigating linguistic, psychological and social issues, all linked to the central questions, relentlessly posed: ‘what is the human mind and how does it work?’, ‘what is the potential of thought and what are its limits?’
But we encounter here too, Valéry the writer: exploratory, fragmentary texts undermine the boundaries be