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A study on the study, and what happens when we read too much
With the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe’s cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics. Andrew Hui tells the remarkable story of the Renaissance studiolo—a “little studio”—and reveals how these spaces dedicated to self-cultivation became both a remedy and a poison for the soul.
Blending fresh, insightful readings of literary and visual works with engaging accounts of his life as an insatiable bookworm, Hui traces how humanists from Petrarch to Machiavelli to Montaigne created their own intimate studies. He looks at imaginary libraries in Rabelais, Cervantes, Shakespeare, and Marlowe, and discusses how Renaissance painters depicted the Virgin Mary and St. Jerome as saintly bibliophiles. Yet writers of the period also saw a dark side to solitary reading. It drove Don Quixote to madness, Prospero to exile, and Faustus to perdition. Hui draws parallels with our own age of information surplus and charts the studiolo’s influence on bibliographic fabulists like Jorge Luis Borges and Umberto Eco.
Beautifully illustrated, The Study is at once a celebration of bibliophilia and a critique of bibliomania. Incorporating perspectives on Islamic, Mughal, and Chinese book cultures, it offers a timely and eloquent meditation on the ways we read and misread today.
Reviews: Wall Street Journal, Kirkus Reviews, Publisher's Weekly review, Publisher's Weekly interview, Letterpress Project, Indiependent Review
“With learning and grace, Andrew Hui conducts readers on a virtual tour of sites of reading, from St. Jerome’s wilderness retreat to the sumptuous libraries of Renaissance princes, from Montaigne’s tower to Prospero’s island. Spanning many centuries and cultures, this book about the real and imagined places of splendid scholarly solitude will delight all who love books and who long for a room of their own in which to read them.”—Lorraine Daston, author of Rules: A Short History of What We Live By
“This marvel of a book virtuosically interweaves text and images to tell the story of a magical, mysterious place: the studiolo. From Petrarch to Montaigne, and through to the great mythical figures of Don Quixote, Faust, and Prospero, Andrew Hui recreates the entire universe of humanism and the Renaissance before our eyes with vertiginous erudition. Imbued with verve, humor, and sensitivity, The Study is worthy of a place in every library.”—William Marx, Collège de France
“Whether Hui is taking us to the Ambrosiana in Milan or reading Cervantes in Singapore, his voice shines through in this learned and luminous book about books. At once playful and direct, erudite and curious, this monumental work of scholarship is also a gift of friendship.”—Julia Reinhard Lupton, author of Shakespeare Dwelling: Designs for the Theater of Life
“Andrew Hui has given us a jewel of a book that traces our timeless bond with that magical space that mirrors both the reader and the stormy world beyond the page.”—Alberto Manguel, author of A History of Reading
An engaging look at the aphorism, the shortest literary form, across time, languages, and cultures.
Aphorisms―or philosophical short sayings―appear everywhere, from Confucius to Twitter, the Buddha to the Bible, Heraclitus to Nietzsche. Yet despite this ubiquity, the aphorism is the least studied literary form. What are its origins? How did it develop? How do religious or philosophical movements arise from the enigmatic sayings of charismatic leaders? And why do some of our most celebrated modern philosophers use aphoristic fragments to convey their deepest ideas? In A Theory of the Aphorism, Andrew Hui crisscrosses histories and cultures to answer these questions and more.
With clarity and precision, Hui demonstrates how aphorisms―ranging from China, Greece, and biblical antiquity to the European Renaissance and nineteenth century―encompass sweeping and urgent programs of thought. Constructed as literary fragments, aphorisms open new lines of inquiry and horizons of interpretation. In this way, aphorisms have functioned as ancestors, allies, or antagonists to grand systems of philosophy.
Encompassing literature, philology, and philosophy, the history of the book and the history of reading, A Theory of the Aphorism invites us to reflect anew on what it means to think deeply about this pithiest of literary forms.
Read Adam Gopnik’s review in the New Yorker.
Named one of Best Philosophy Books of 2019
Reviewed in TLS, Corriere della Sera,World Literature Today, The Millions, Singapore Review of Books, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, Choice, Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies, Comparative Literature Studies. Forum for Modern Language Studies, Hoyesarte
The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature
Fordham University Press, 2017
The Renaissance was the Ruin-naissance, the birth of the ruin as a distinct category of cultural discourse, one that inspired voluminous poetic production. For humanists, the ruin became the material sign that marked the rupture between themselves and classical antiquity. In the first full-length book to document this cultural phenomenon, Andrew Hui explains how the invention of the ruin propelled poets into creating works that were self-aware of their absorption of the past as well as their own survival in the future.
De Confucio a Twitter, de Buda a la Biblia o de Heráclito a Nietzsche, los aforismos (breves sentencias de carácter filosófico) constituyen una constante en la historia del ser humano. Presentados habitualmente como fragmentos literarios, permiten iniciar nuevas líneas de pensamiento y ofrecen horizontes novedosos de interpretación, por lo que a menudo han servido de precedentes, apoyos u obstáculos a los grandes sistemas filosóficos. ¿Cómo se desarrolló? ¿Cómo han podido surgir movimientos religiosos y políticos a partir de los enigmáticos dichos de sus líderes? ¿Por qué algunos de los filósofos modernos más aclamados optan por ellos a la hora de formular sus ideas más complejas? Este libro pretende dar respuesta a estas y otras preguntas a partir de una aproximación al aforismo en distintas culturas, como las de las antiguas China y Grecia, la tradición de los autores bíblicos, el Renacimiento europeo o la filosofía occidental del siglo XIX
Τα γνωμικά ή «αφορισμοί» –μικρά φιλοσοφικά ρητά– εμφανίζονται παντού, από τον Κομφούκιο έως το Twitter, από τον Βούδα έως τη Βίβλο, από τον Ηράκλειτο έως τον Νίτσε. Ωστόσο, παρά τη γενική αυτή παρουσία, το γνωμικό είναι το λογοτεχνικό είδος που έχει μελετηθεί λιγότερο. Ποιες είναι οι καταβολές του; Πώς εξελίχθηκε; Πώς κάποια θρησκευτικά ή φιλοσοφικά κινήματα ξεκινούν από τα αινιγματικά λόγια χαρισματικών ηγετών; Και γιατί κάποιοι από τους πιο γνωστούς σύγχρονους φιλοσόφους χρησιμοποιούν αποφθεγματικά ρητά για να εκφράσουν τις βαθύτερες σκέψεις τους; Στο βιβλίο, ο Andrew Hui διασταυρώνει ιστορίες και κουλτούρες για να απαντήσει σε αυτά και σε άλλα ερωτήματα.
Με σαφήνεια και ακρίβεια, ο Hui δείχνει πώς τα γνωμικά –από την Κίνα, την Ελλάδα και τη βιβλική αρχαιότητα έως την Ευρωπαϊκή Αναγέννηση και τον 19ο αιώνα– περικλείουν σαρωτικά και επείγοντα προγράμματα σκέψης. Δομημένα ως λογοτεχνικά αποσπάσματα, τα γνωμικά ανοίγουν νέους ορίζοντες έρευνας και ερμηνείας και με τον τρόπο αυτό έχουν λειτουργήσει ως πρόγονοι, σύμμαχοι ή ανταγωνιστές μεγάλων φιλοσοφικών συστημάτων.
Περικλείοντας λογοτεχνία, φιλολογία και φιλοσοφία, την ιστορία του βιβλίου και την ιστορία της ανάγνωσης, το βιβλίο Όλη η σοφία σε μια πρόταση μας καλεί να αναλογιστούμε εκ νέου τη σημασία της μελέτης αυτού του περιεκτικού λογοτεχνικού είδους.
القول المأثور من كونفوشيوس إلى تويتر ، تأليف : أندرو هيو
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هذا كتاب مختصر عن أقصر أنواع «القول المأثور» باعتباره وحدة ركيزة للفكر الواضح، وقد استمر هذا القالب المصغر، عبر ثقافات العالم وتاريخه، من «كونفوشيوس» حتى تويتر، ومن «هيراقليطس» حتى «نيتشه»، ومن بوذا حتى المسيح، يناقض ثرثرة الحمقى، وصياح البيروقراطيين، وصمت الصوفيين، فإنّ كل كلمة في القول المأثور لها وزنها، ولا شيء زائد فيه.
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