The Uses of Slime Mould: Essays of Four Decades

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Dalkey Archive Press, 2004 - 222 páginas

Including pieces on Gregory Bateson, William Faulkner, Philip Pullman, Sir Oswald Mosley's politics, religion and stammering, this diverse collection gathers essays written by Nicholas Mosley over the past forty years. Resembling the behaviour of slime mould - a strange organism made up of separate amoebae that temporarily form a single pillar which then bursts in order to scatter its seeds across the forest floor - the ideas found in these essays converge and disperse, crossing over into other disciplines, and creating a unique way of looking at the world, one echoed in Mosley's fictional writings.

 

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The Coming of Wit
5
Runaway Mankind
10
Nietzsche and Creation
13
Not What the Doctor Ordered
17
The Heart of a Venomous Squabble
20
Trust Life to Work with You
23
The Value of the Clown
25
Do Humans Desire Happiness?
27
Some Do Take Responsibility for Themselves
112
Jonestown Enigmas
114
Evil Is Done by Ordinary People Going about Their Ordinary Tasks
117
Cold Feet
120
Sparks that Glowed
124
Cogs in Wheels
128
What Makes Life Worth Living
131
From Journey into the Dark III
135

Two Cultures Are No Culture
32
From Journey into the Dark I
39
What Are Novels For?
47
William Faulkners Universe
52
Seeing It Whole
56
What Life Is Like
59
The Philosopher Fails The Artist Succeeds
62
Bits of Gold
65
Lament for Lost Childhood
67
Desire for Delinquency
70
No Answer from the Sky
73
Dissidence
77
The New Humanism Is Coming in Spite of All the Barbarism
80
Against the Tyranny of Genes
83
A Novel of Hope that Cannot Find a Publisher
85
Gilbert Sorrentino and Mulligan Stew
89
From Journey into the Dark II
95
The Schizoid State
99
The Burden of Vocation
101
SelfDeceit and Lack of Courage
104
Becoming Free of the Burden
107
Are Not Humans Responsible for Themselves?
110
A Question of Probabilities
139
The Enemy of Paradox
142
The Moral Voluptuousness of Hell
145
Philosophy Back in the Mainstream?
148
The Church and Art
153
Through a Glass Darkly
156
A Social Contract?
159
For Heavens Sake Repent
161
The Christian and the Bomb
165
Mohammed and Monotheism
167
The Old Testament and Paradise Lost
169
The Uses of Adversity
173
Prayer
175
Freedom Made Available by God
177
Philip Pullmans Theology
181
From Journey into the Dark IV
189
What Price Political Idealism?
197
From Journey into the Dark V
203
Stammering
211
From Journey into the Dark VI
215
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The Uses of Slime Mould: Essays of Four Decades
Nicholas Mosley
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Nicholas Mosley
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Acerca del autor (2004)

Nicholas Mosley was born on June 25, 1923. During World War II, he joined the Rifle Brigade and won the Military Cross. He read philosophy for one year at Oxford University. His first novel, Spaces in the Dark, was published in 1951. His other novels included Accident, Impossible Object, and Hopeful Monsters, which won the Whitbread book of the year in 1990. He wrote biographies of poet Julian Grenfell, Russian leader Leon Trotsky, and Father Raymond Raynes. He was best known for his two-part biography on his father Sir Oswald Mosley, the founder of the British Union of Fascists, entitled The Rules of the Game and Beyond the Pale. He died on February 28, 2017 at the age of 93.

Información bibliográfica

TítuloThe Uses of Slime Mould: Essays of Four Decades
British literature series
Lannen selection
AutorNicholas Mosley
EditorDalkey Archive Press, 2004
ISBN156478360X, 9781564783608
Largo222 páginas
  
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