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Find an Angel and Pick a Fight
£ 22.00
“This is a book on reckless writing and careful reading, on invention and recognition. It’s about how people find meaning and how we pass it on or lose it. The political expectations that drive it are inherited from religion; it tracks the chiliastic, digital divide between quality and quantity in the decades between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the receivership of democracy, venturing well beyond the author’s stamping ground in poetry and translation, into philosophy, into linguistic and arithmetical pattern recognition, and into the merits and pitfalls of machine code as an aid to conversation.”
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“It is a splendid book. I have just finished reading it through for a second time with great pleasure and profit … There is no simple and straightforward way of summarizing your rich and complex argument. The richness and the complexity are inevitable, given that your subject matter is language.” – Alasdair MacIntyre.
“The murderous Belgian Congo is only one of Walter Scott’s ‘wide and deep rivers’ in McCarey’s rich, mind-expanding book … Steal this book! Better still, buy and scribble. Alps of logic and metaphysics lie there to be scaled – the philosophies of Alasdair MacIntyre, George Davie and John Anderson aren’t for the uninstructed – but also great subversions (a ‘People of the Opium’ feature threatening Holyrood for a start). Re-reading is compulsory.” – Christopher Harvie, The Scottish Review
“Does this book achieve all this? Well, certainly enough to keep me hooked after two careful readings…” – Alexander Hutchison, PN Review
“Contrary, generous, intermittently barmy, always readable.” – John Clegg, London Review Bookshop poetry picks of the year 2014
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| Author | Peter McCarey |
|---|---|
| ISBN | 978-2-9700376-0-6 |
| Publication date | 2013 |
| Format | Perfect bound, 370 pages. |
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