Finding a Replacement for the Soul: Mind and Meaning in Literature and PhilosophyApproaching the study of literature as a unique form of the philosophy of language and mind—as a study of how we produce nonsense and imagine it as sense—this is a book about our human ways of making and losing meaning. Brett Bourbon asserts that our complex and variable relation with language defines a domain of meaning and being that is misconstrued and missed in philosophy, in literary studies, and in our ordinary understanding of what we are and how things make sense. Accordingly, his book seeks to demonstrate how the study of literature gives us the means to understand this relationship. |
Contents
From SoulMaking to PersonMaking | 27 |
The Logical Form of Fiction | 50 |
The Emptiness of Literary Interpretation | 80 |
To Be But Not To Mean | 101 |
How Do Oracles Mean? | 121 |
SENSES AND NONSENSE JOYCES FINNEGANS WAKE AND WITTGENSTEINS PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS | 143 |
A Twitterlitter of Nonsense Askesis at Finnegans Wake | 145 |
The Analogy between Persons and Words | 168 |
The Human Body Is the Best Picture of the Human Soul | 192 |
The Senses of Time | 216 |
Being Something and Meaning Something | 238 |
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Acknowledgments | 269 |
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Finding a Replacement for the Soul: Mind and Meaning in Literature and ... Brett Bourbon Limited preview - 2009 |
Finding a Replacement for the Soul: Mind and Meaning in Literature and ... Brett Bourbon Limited preview - 2004 |