Labor and Writing

Language and the Origins of Imagination

Frederic Will (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

126 Seiten

2022 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-8594-2 (ISBN)

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This book highlights the writing act, humanity’s determinant cultural investment. Writing, which is labor, that is work against resistance, is the way we record and reconsider what we have been, and, at its best, what our most useful imaginations and social constructions have been. Our greatest imaginations include a wide range of social achievements, from the initial brilliance of relating words to things and ideas, to the construction of social bonds, to our orientation in the natural or religious worlds, where we play for the ultimate game, salvation, Writing is at the heart of all those enterprises, and the essays in the present book range from the anatomy of one man’s labor, the author’s, through the first uses of language as identification of things, as tool for orientation in space or in religious value, or as a means for replacing undiscovered reality with fictional invention.

Frederic Will, a writer and professor, is currently President of The Humanities Institute (www.humanitiesinstitute.org), a new graduate institute that will offer advanced degrees in the Humanities. His literary actions have been archived since the early Sixties in the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas. He is the author of more than 60 books, including poetry, literary history, cultural criticism, and travel writing.

Erscheinungsdatum	21.07.2022
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
ISBN-10	1-5275-8594-8 / 1527585948
ISBN-13	978-1-5275-8594-2 / 9781527585942
Zustand	Neuware