A Defence of Philosophy: Reason and Imagination
In his essay, ‘A Defence of Poetry’, Shelley distinguishes reason from imagination in the following way: “Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things. Reason is to imagination as the instrument to the agent, as the body to the spirit, as the shadow to the substance.” Although Shelley had poetry in mind when...
Book Review: Suicide, a novel by Edouard Levé
As its title augurs, this book by Edouard Levé (his first to be published in English) is an honest meditation on the subject of suicide. The reader is prepared for its honesty by the blurb, which explains that the author took his own life just ten days after delivering the final manuscript of Suicide to...
