(P/B) EMBLEMS OF MIND

Παρουσίαση

Looking back on a journey is not always a good idea: one tends to see the turns not taken, the perspectives missed, essential things overlooked. Or else one forgets the difficulties altogether and re-remembers it as an untroubled romp. But looking back at this book, a decade after it was published, leaves me with a very different sense. The difficulties are still here, though I also hope readers will not be discouraged from persevering, or else, at the very least, that they will shift their attention from the knotty details to what musicians call the "long line." The roads not taken are so numerous that neither do they provoke much regret. What I have tried to offer is a particular path that I still believe leads outward, out of the thickets, offering large vistas and resonant pleasures. And if some readers have found the opening chapters too daunting, the real essence of the book unfolds in its second half, when the labors, I hope, bear fruit. [...] (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Preface to the 2006 edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PRELUDE: THE NEED FOR METAPHOR
PARTITA: THE INNER LIFE OF MATHEMATICS
SONATA: THE INNER LIFE OF MUSIC
THEME AND VARIATIONS: THE PURSUIT OF BEAUTY
FUGUE: THE MAKING OF TRUTH
CHORALE: THE TEXTURE OF THOUGHT
Selected bibliography
Index