Scorpions and the Anatomy of Time / Jacques M. Chevalier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chevalier, Jacques M., 1949-

Series:

3-D mind ; v. 3

The 3-D mind ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neuropsychology.

Semiotics--Psychological aspects.

Semiotics.

Psycholinguistics.

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Neurophysiology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the coronal plane that governs the weavings of remembrance and anticipation, recollections of the past and expectations of the future. Chevalier shows that while brain and sign processing caters to events that succeed in attracting our attention, it also provides means to produce silence where unawareness is called for. Some inattention to things that are no longer or not yet is a requirement of the plotting of signs of hope and apprehension folding and unfolding in narrative time. The end result is a complex calculus of recollection, anticipation, and hope combined with traces of deferment, forgetfulness, and fear. This intricate "time-machine" built into language and the brain governs the "working memory system, an active memory operating by necessity in the present tense. Chevalier explores these issues in light of what philosophers such as St. Augustine, Kant, Heidegger, and Lévi-Strauss have said about memory and the nature of time. Arguing against all static and apocalyptic conceptions of time, Chevalier applies his own blending of "neurosemiotics" and Ricoeurian hermeneutics to the interpretive analysis of narrative plots ranging from a cat drawn by a child to intriguing speculations on the hot and the cold in Mexican Nahua agriculture. The 3-D Mind 3 also looks at prophecies of demonic scorpions in the Book of Revelation, and signs of the End heralded by the tragedy of Ground Zero.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Log On: Bookmarks

Neural Reminders

The Time Machine

Attentive and Inattentive Remembering

Short-Term, Long-Term, and Working Memories

Memory in the Future Tense

Fear and Watchfulness

Synaptic Fields and Long-Term Potentiation

Things to Remember

Semiotic Motions

Volumes Recollected

Mum’s the Word

Scorpions at the End of Time

Timing and Planting a Plot

Speculations on the Hot and the Cold

Philosophical Speculations

Kant on Time

Assembling a Clock

But Where Is Time?

The Body and Soul of Time

Variations on the Signum Triceps

All in a Bar

Ground Zero History and Signs of Transgenocide

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-86043-7

9786612860430

0-7735-7018-7

OCLC:

80221449