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History of Western Philosophy in 100 Haiku
Haris Vlavianos
Translated from Greek by Peter Mackridge
History of Western Philosophy in 100 Haiku, by Haris Vlavianos and translated by Peter Mackridge from Greek, brings Greek-language poetry from Greece into English through philosophical compression, wit, and the almost mischievous decision to make Western thought answerable to haiku. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem starts making its own weather. I would read it for concepts, brevity, comedy, and the strange relief of seeing large systems made tiny, not as a fixed lesson about Greece. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. History of Western Philosophy in 100 Haiku belongs in the translated poetry library because it lets intellectual history enter the library through play rather than summary.
- Published
- 2015
- Publisher
- Dedalus Press, The
- Language
- Greek
- Country
- Greece
- ISBN
- 9781910251010