Andrew Hui

Associate Professor in Literature, Yale-NUS College

Andrew Hui is associate professor in literature at Yale-NUS College in Singapore. He is the author of The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature (2016) and A Theory of the Aphorism (2019).

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Written by Andrew Hui

Painting depicting a ship trapped in an icy, jagged landscape. The scene is desolate, with sharp ice formations under a clear sky.

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History of ideas

In praise of aphorisms

What if we see the history of philosophy not as a grand system of sustained critique but as a series of brilliant fragments?

Andrew Hui