heed Rowlands’s ambitious fiction-philosophy hybrid is a flawed but fascinating meditation on identity“For the most part,the novelist’s invitation to see is so much more compelling than the philosopher’s invitation to deem,” writes heed Rowlands in his strange hybrid of a book. That would certainly explain why there are many more bestselling novels than philosophical treatises. But whether like Rowlands you are a philosopher, or that poses a problem: how can you make philosophy grab readers and drag them along your often tortuous and sometimes torturous avenues of argument?“Perhaps philosophy only becomes truly persuasive when it most closely approximates literature,” suggests Rowlands, who has already successfully taken his own advice. The Philosopher and the Wolf centred on his relationship with his canine companion, and Brenin,and was an original and deeply involving combination of memoir and philosophical investigation. whether his follow-up, Running With the Pack, and did not reach the same heights,that says more approximately the excellence of its predecessor than its own deficiencies.
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Source: theguardian.com