Vitalpoetics http://vitalpoetics.com Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:54:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My being [/language] is part of the totality of what is [written] It seems that for many philosophers, being must be conceived of as finite and therefore in some way whole. Perhaps this is what keeps them…

]]> http://vitalpoetics.com/archives/280 The Attempt to Say Everything: Gustave Flaubert Reading Colin Dray’s recent Vitalpoetics post got me thinking about Gustave Flaubert, firstly as a man whose rebellion against romanticism drove him to explore the…

]]> http://vitalpoetics.com/archives/217 Swedenborg’s Oven: Head number One On the 20th August 1743 Emanuel Swedenborg (engineer, scientist, philosopher, visionary) abruptly ends his travel diary after only six pages with the words “From Harlingen,…

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