Cahiers / Notebooks 2: Editor in Chief: Brian Stimpson- Associate Editors: Paul Gifford and Robert Pickering- Translated by Rachel Killick, Robert Rinsler, Stephen Romer and Brian Stimpson
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| Rating | : | 4.92 (980 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 3631367635 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 596 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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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 between analysis and creativity, between theory and practice. 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. The concerns and the insights that occupied Valéry’s inner v
Paul Gifford is Buchanan Professor of French at the University of St Andrews. Robert Pickering is Professor of French Literature at the Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand. The Editors: Brian Stimpson is Professor of Twentieth-Century French Literature at the University of Surrey Roehampton. Brian Stimpson, Paul Gifford
The first two volumes of the projected series give every indication of meticulous research and scholarship. -Editing the 'Cahiers' is a monumental undertaking, and Brian Stimpson, Paul Gifford, and Robert Pickering have acquitted themselves honorably. The books are handsome; the typeface is delicate but readable; and the endnotes are what endnotes are supposed to be: enlightening addenda served up in pithy, eloquent prose.- (Arthur Krystal, Harper's Magazine)"
Shalom Freedman said Art as Science - Science as Art. The intellectual enterprise of Paul Valery was a unique one. He devoted the greatest part of his life in work of the mind to examining the workings of his own mind. He did so in the hope at one point anyway, of establishing a mathematical understanding of how the Mind works. In later years his ambition as he sensed its impossibility , was transformed and persisted