Paul Valéry: Consciousness and Nature - Hardcover

Crow, Christine M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521082579 ISBN 13: 9780521082570

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1972

Inhaltsangabe

Dr Crow shows that self-awareness for Valery was the mainspring of a sensitive and detailed involvement with the forms and processes of the natural world. The book provides one of the first comprehensive studies of the underlying unity of Valery's poetry and thought.

Über diesen Titel

Reseña del editor

Paul Valery refused to choose between art and science. Although critics have often separated in their discussions of his work his poetry and his thought, he looked upon poetic composition as but one means of deepening his interest in the human mind in all its possibilities. It has been said nevertheless that because of his predominant interest in the mind - in the nature of self-awareness in particular - he was concerned only superficially with anything apart from mental processes. Dr Crow shows that this is not so: on the contrary, self-awareness for Valery was the mainspring of a sensitive and detailed involvement with the forms and processes of the natural world. By concentrating on a theme so central to Valery's interests as consciousness and nature, this book has the merit of approaching his many-sided writings from the point of their greatest unity. The book provides one of the first comprehensive studies of the underlying unity of Valery's poetry and thought.

Product Description

Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 270 pages; Physical desc.: xiii, 270 p ; 23 cm. Notes: A revision of the author's thesis, University of Cambridge, 1968. Subject: ValeÂŽry, Paul, 1871-1945.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1972
• ISBN 10: 0521082579
• ISBN 13: 9780521082570
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 284