These poems by a wellknown philosopher and literary theorist take a lead from Platos intriguing account of how Socrates turned to composing verse during his last few days despite having famously denounced its corrupting moral, social and political effects. Writing as a convinced formalist, Christopher Norris deploys a range of meters, stanzaforms and rhymeschemes by way of exploring how the discipline of verse might relate to that of philosophical enquiry as practiced across the ages. Some of his poems have to do with individual thinkers, such as Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Adorno, and Derrida. Others are concerned with wider debates like those around the nature of time, the status of mathematical truths, the enduring puzzles of quantum mechanics, Kurt Godels Undecidability Theorem, the mind/body problem, the ontology of art, the nature of rules, and the role of luck in matters of moral judgment. Others again are philosophical in the nonspecialist sense of confronting oftenasked questions about love, memory, identity, character, social roles, choice, evolution, and animal sentience.What People Are Saying"I not only want to read it again. I want to emulate it. Its a liberating model of how, after a career in critical and philosophical prose, a writer can distill and animate the thoughts and thinkers with which and whom he has been long engaged." DON BIALOSTOSKY"The poems in Socrates at Verse are not the mythic romantic odes of...

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