4. Emily Dickinson’s Epistolary Poetics and Philosophical Practice
The practice of letter-writing has a long history in philosophy. A key-text of the Hellenistic tradition is Epicure’s famous Letter…
3. Philosophy and Poetry
Philosophy and poetry have a common origin: the wonder at the presence of things. Philosophy distinguishes itself from poetry in…
2. The metaphor of the heart
Both the musicologist David Burrows and the philosopher María Zambrano call attention to the fact that most common epistemological metaphors…
1. Forgotten voices of philosophy
Since the origins of philosophy in ancient Greece, reason has been regarded as the highest quality of mankind. Conceptual thinking…