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The Experience of Meaning - Jan Zwicky

The Experience of Meaning

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Buch | Hardcover
248 Seiten
2019
McGill-Queen's University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7735-5742-0 (ISBN)
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A provocative exploration of the experience of meaning, and a clarion call for its recovery in contemporary culture.
The aim of this book is a recovery of interest in the experience of meaning. Jan Zwicky defends the claim that we experience meaning in the apprehension of wholes and their internal structural relations, providing 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.

Jan Zwicky, an internationally recognized poet and scholar, has held appointments at numerous universities including Princeton, the University of Alberta, and the University of Victoria. She is the author of several books, including Alkibiades' Love: Essays in Philosophy.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 5 b&w photos, 18 drawings
Verlagsort Montreal
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie
ISBN-10 0-7735-5742-3 / 0773557423
ISBN-13 978-0-7735-5742-0 / 9780773557420
Zustand Neuware
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