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Author(s): W. David Shaw
ISBN(s): 9781442685307, 1442685301
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 1.59 MB
Year: 2009
Language: english
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ISBN 10:    1442640340
ISBN 13: 978-1442640344
Author:       W. David Shaw

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, 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.

Secrets of the Oracle A History of Wisdom from Zeno to Yeats 1st  Table of contents:

PART ONE: AN OWL FOR APOLLO: WISDOM AND THE POETS

  • Chapter 1: Descent of the Owl: Philosophy among the Poets
  • Chapter 2: Tennyson and Zeno: Three Infinities
  • Chapter 3: How Poets Die to Time: The Sublime Oracle
  • Chapter 4: Making Peace with Time: The Beautiful Oracle
  • Chapter 5: The Ruins of Time: The Grotesque Oracle

PART TWO: HOMAGE TO WISDOM: FROM DELPHI TO ZEN

  • Chapter 6: Wisdom and the Logos: John’s Gospel to Four Quartets
  • Chapter 7: Gnostic Wisdom: Parable and Koan
  • Chapter 8: Paradox and Oracle: Crucible versus Mirror
  • Chapter 9: Copy-Speech and Counter-Love: Wordsworth and Frost
  • Chapter 10: ‘A River Runs through It’ and Joyce’s ‘The Dead’

PART THREE: OWLS, BULLS, AND SERPENTS: WISDOM OR GUILE?

  • Chapter 11: The Wise Owl: George Eliot’s Arrested Wit
  • Chapter 12: The Serpent of Irony: Wisdom or Guile?
  • Chapter 13: Groucho Marx to Bernard Shaw: The Irish Bull
  • Chapter 14: Oracles of Wit: Oscar Wilde and Northrop Frye

PART FOUR: WISDOM AT GETTYSBURG: REWRITING THE ORACLES

  • Chapter 15: From Delphi to Gettysburg: Changing the Covenant
  • Chapter 16: Coleridge and Huxley: Experiment or Decree?
  • Chapter 17: Evolving Oracles: Newman, Browning, and Shakespeare
  • Chapter 18: An Underground Oracle: ‘Look in Your Heart and Write’

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