Revised Poetry of Western Philosophy, A (Pitt Poetry Series) - Softcover

"Imagine, as Daniel Grandbois has, a conflation of Marxes (Karl and Groucho) and a hipster Plato, and you can begin to understand the enterprise of reimagining the history of Western philosophy as a series of comic summaries, complete with abstracts for the novice and infused with a storyteller's sense of the need to entertain, while shedding light on the great intellectual enterprises from ancient to modern times. This book is a marvel."-Christopher Kennedy

Bertrand Russell finds himself in purgatory, tumbling through literal representations of the worlds of ideas he examined in his classic text, A History of Western Philosophy. In the end, however, he is all jumbled up and clucking like Einstein's cuckoo clock, until he perceives philosophy as music, hears its arguments as a symphonic procession of the electrochemical pulses produced within three-pound lumps-lumps self-amalgamated from the vomitus of stars-and revises his History.