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Epimethean Imaginings - Philosophical and Other Meditations on Everyday Light (Hardcover)
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Epimethean Imaginings - Philosophical and Other Meditations on Everyday Light (Hardcover)
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These essays, written in the spirit of Goethe's Epimetheus who
"traces the quick deed to the dim realm of form-combining
possibilities", display the depth and breadth of Tallis's
fascination with our lives. Whether discussing philosophical "hardy
perennials" like time, or a mundane artefact like ink, Tallis
challenges us to think differently about who we are and why we are.
The first part of the book - Analysis - dives into the deep-end to
explore some of the big questions in philosophy: perception,
knowledge and belief; time; the relationship between mathematics
and reality; and probability and causation. The middle section -
Tetchy Interludes - takes a wry look at some aspects of
contemporary art; stupidity (including the author's own); and
Christmas. The third part - Celebration - is more experimental in
both its subject matter and treatment. It celebrates the complexity
of ordinary, everyday consciousness by contemplating the miracle of
speech, artefacts that have transformed our lives (and what they
reveal about our cognition) such as the wheel, the sail, and ink;
and 'snapshots' of the author's own consciousness on an ordinary
day, of past consciousness, as captured in historical memory.
Notwithstanding their diversity in theme and style, these essays
share the common aim of discovering and celebrating the submerged
riches in the "quick deeds" of our everyday lives and perceptions.
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