<p><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(83, 90, 98, 1)">2024 revised edition</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(83, 90, 98, 1)">. Structured&nbsp;around&nbsp;classical Greek&nbsp;choral&nbsp;movements, the&nbsp;first&nbsp;section&nbsp;ponders themes&nbsp;from&nbsp;Japanese&nbsp;Buddhism,&nbsp;while the&nbsp;second&nbsp;and&nbsp;third&nbsp;survey&nbsp;Western&nbsp;philosophy&nbsp;from&nbsp;Aristotle&nbsp;and&nbsp;Plato&nbsp;through&nbsp;Descartes, Pascal,&nbsp;Kierkegaard, Nietzsche,&nbsp;Wittgenstein,&nbsp;Heidegger,&nbsp;Derrida,&nbsp;and others,&nbsp;in&nbsp;a&nbsp;powerfully dramatic&nbsp;grappling&nbsp;with&nbsp;philosophy,&nbsp;East&nbsp;and&nbsp;West.​​</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(83, 90, 98, 1)">Peter&nbsp;Marsh,&nbsp;an&nbsp;academic&nbsp;philosopher&nbsp;weighs&nbsp;modern life&nbsp;in&nbsp;a conversation&nbsp;with his&nbsp;friend, David&nbsp;Emerson,&nbsp;a&nbsp;businessman.&nbsp;Brought&nbsp;together&nbsp;after&nbsp;long separation&nbsp;by the&nbsp;brutal murder&nbsp;of&nbsp;Mary,&nbsp;Peter's wife,&nbsp;a&nbsp;time&nbsp;of&nbsp;devastating&nbsp;loss&nbsp;and crisis,&nbsp;their&nbsp;friendship&nbsp;inspires&nbsp;a&nbsp;dark night&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;soul,&nbsp;during&nbsp;which&nbsp;Peter's&nbsp;meditations range&nbsp;over several&nbsp;hundred&nbsp;years&nbsp;of&nbsp;philosophy,&nbsp;politics, religion,&nbsp;social change, the&nbsp;dilemmas&nbsp;of existence,&nbsp;evoking&nbsp;a&nbsp;vision&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;complexities&nbsp;of the&nbsp;21st&nbsp;Century,&nbsp;the&nbsp;United&nbsp;Nations, and&nbsp;global&nbsp;governance.</span></p><p>"This is a doorway into the future. Colored richly and satisfyingly with symbols that speak directly to the psyche-the way that artwork spoke to the illiterate in the Middle Ages."&nbsp;<strong>-Poems Niederngasse</strong></p><p>"Glaysher pays his readers the compliment of assuming that they will have at least a basic familiarity with the major world classics and philosophies of both East and West."&nbsp;<strong>-Manifold 44</strong></p>