Small Map of Experience: Reflections & Aphorisms

by Leonidas Donskis

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To entail, scan and embrace more knowledge of "what is" and "what ought to be done" in fewer words -- to make a statement as short, concise, terse and pithy as possible while rendering the sights it opens as vast as possible -- is the principal intention of the practitioners of the difficult art of the aphorism. Many writers have tried it, few have succeeded. A successful aphorism, true to its mission, allows a small step to go a long, perhaps an infinitely long, way. But as knowledge needed to find one's way in our increasingly crowded and complex...Read more
  • ISBN10 1550716603
  • ISBN13 9781550716603
  • Publish Date 7 May 2013
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 12 March 2021
  • Publish Country CA
  • Imprint Guernica Editions,Canada
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 114
  • Language English