Reading Paul Valéry: Universe in Mind

Book Overview

The most recently acknowledged--and the most private--of the masters of modernity, Paul Val?ry is perhaps the most radical and wide-ranging. He navigates freely within the mental galaxies known to scientists, poets, literary theorists, musicians, philosophers, historians and social anthropologists, always concerned with exploring the potential and limits of the human mind. This volume of essays by internationally recognized scholars offers the first...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521585449
• ISBN13: 9780521585446
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"