Medicine and Miracles Over 1
an editor for the Los Angeles Times receives an e-mail describing the murder in vivid details
Reading how Strand and Boland view a dozen poems transforms the way one reads
Lewis has given us a spectacular account of two great men who faced up to uncertainty and the limits of human reason
James Boyd White examines the relationship between an individual mind and its language and culture as well as the "textual community" established between writer and audience
Conditions Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology (2005) Medicine and Miracles Over 1Beginning with a sustained critique of the so called 'end of philosophy', Badiou goes on to propose a new definition of philosophy, one that is tested with respect to both its origin, in Plato, and its contemporary state. The essays that follow are ordered according to what Badiou sees as the four great conditions of philosophy and poetry, philosophy and mathematics, philosophy and politics, and philosophy and love. Conditions provides an illuminating