| Metanoia: A Speculative Ontology of Language, Thinking, and the Brain Contributor(s): Avanessian, Armen (Author), Hennig, Anke (Author), Bryant, Levi R. (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1350004731 ISBN-13: 9781350004733 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC OUR PRICE: $34.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2019 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Metaphysics - Philosophy | Language - Philosophy | Mind & Body |
| Physical Information: 0.48" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.71 lbs) 224 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Fusing speculative realism, analytical and linguistic philosophy this book theorises the fundamental impact the experience of reading has on us. In reading, language provides us with a world and meaning becomes perceptible. We can connect with another subjectivity, another place, another time. At its most extreme, reading changes our understanding of the world around us. Metanoia- meaning literally a change of mind or a conversion-refers to this kind of new way of seeing. To see the world in a new light is to accept that our thinking has been irrevocably transformed. How is that possible? And is it merely an intellectual process without any impact on the world outside our brains? Innovatively tackling these questions, this book mobilizes discussions from linguistics, literary theory, philosophy of language, and cognitive science. It re-articulates linguistic consciousness by underlining the poetic, creative moment of language and sheds light on the ability of language to transform not only our thinking but the world around us as well. |
Contributor Bio(s): Avanessian, Armen: - Armen Avanessian is a professor at the Peter Szondi Institute for Comparative Literature at the Free University Berlin, Germany. He has been a Visiting Fellow in the German Department at Columbia University (2011) and in the German Department at Yale University (2012). He is also editor of the book series SPEKULATIONEN (Merve Verlag Berlin) and Guest editor of the series Theories for the 21st Century for Spike Art Quarterly. In 2012 he founded a research platform on Speculative Poetics, including a series of events, translations and publications: www.spekulative-poetik.de.Hennig, Anke: - Anke Hennig is a Research Fellow in the Collaborative Research Centre 626 'Aesthetic Experience and the Dissolution of Artistic Limits' and teaches at the Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature at the Free University Berlin, Germany. She is the author of Sowjetische Kinodramaturgie. Konfliktlinien zwischen Literatur und Film in der Sowjetunion der 1930er Jahre, a media history of Soviet Cinematic Dramaturgy published in 2010. |