Wisdom & Metaphor

Jan Zwicky (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2017 | 2nd Revised, Corrected ed.
Brush Education Inc (Verlag)
978-1-55059-565-9 (ISBN)

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In the foreword to Wisdom & Metaphor, Jan Zwicky observes that "those who think metaphorically are enabled to think truly, because the shape of their thinking echoes the shape of the world." Wisdom & Metaphor explores the ways we come to understand the world through analogical structures, and the relation of this form of knowing to conventional epistemology and ontology. Zwicky uses the nature of the book itself, with its facing pages, to create resonant structures of aphorism and quotation which allow the reader to experience the kind of thinking she describes. The author's wide-ranging influences, coupled with an understated, largely spatial, style of discourse, make this a remarkably original approach to long-standing questions about meaning and language. It offers a unique and compelling argument for the fundamental importance of metaphor to philosophy.

Jan Zwicky is a philosopher and poet. She has won the Governor General's Award for poetry, the Dorothy Livesay Award, and has been shortlisted for the Griffin Prize for Poetry. In 2004, Wisdom & Metaphor was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	8.10.2017
Zusatzinfo	Printed music items; Figures; Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort	Calgary
Sprache	englisch
Maße	136 x 215 mm
Gewicht	476 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10	1-55059-565-2 / 1550595652
ISBN-13	978-1-55059-565-9 / 9781550595659
Zustand	Neuware