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Metanoia : a speculative ontology of language, thinking, and the brain / by Armen Avanessian and Anke Hennig ; translated by Nils F. Schott ; with a foreword by Levi Bryant.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Avanessian, Armen, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Metanoia : spekulative Ontologie der Sprache. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Language and languages--Philosophy.
- Language and languages.
- Ontology.
- Poetics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the German.
- Summary:
- "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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
- Contents:
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter I. Poetics : Principles of Lingual Poiesis
- Chapter II. The Analytic Circle : The Lingual Creation of a True World
- Chapter III. Speculation : Aspects of a Poetics of Thought
- Chapter IV. Cognition : Metanoia is an Anagram of Anatomie
- Epilogue : The Whole Truth and Nothing. But the Truth!
- Glossary
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in German as Metanoia : spekulative Ontologie der Sprache"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781350004757
- 1350004758
- 9781350004740
- 135000474X
- 9781350004719
- 1350004715
- OCLC:
- 1004673504
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