The experience of meaning / Jan Zwicky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zwicky, Jan, 1955- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experience.

Meaning (Philosophy).

Meaning (Psychology).

Physical Description:

viii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2019]

Summary:

"The aim of this book is a recovery of interest in the experience of meaning. Zwicky defends the claim that we experience meaning in the apprehension of wholes and their internal structural relations. She provides examples of such insight in mathematics and physics, literature, music, and Plato's ancient theory of forms. Taken together, these essays constitute a powerful indictment of the aggressive reductionism and the reliance on calculative modes of thought that dominate our present conception of understanding, The Experience of Meaning proposes a more just epistemology, arguing for a new grammar of thought, a new way of understanding the relationship of human intelligence to the world. Engaging with philosophy, psychology, literature, fine arts, music, and environmental studies in a profound way, The Experience of Meaning will interest any reader who ponders the question of meaning and its relation to true human expression."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Poetry and meaninglessness

Simplicity and the experience of meaning

Plato and gestalt, or why there is no theory of forms

"Show, don't tell"

Music

The inscape of being.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Zwicky, Jan, 1955- Experience of meaning.

ISBN:

0773557431

9780773557437

9780773557420

0773557423

OCLC:

1065720518