Finding a Replacement for the Soul : : Mind and Meaning in Literature and Philosophy /

Finding a Replacement for the Soul : : Mind and Meaning in Literature and Philosophy / / Brett Bourbon.

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Approaching 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 def...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
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Bourbon, Brett,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]
©2004
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (289 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Note on Abbreviations
  • Introduction:
  • PART I THE SURFACE OF LANGUAGE AND THE ABSENCE OF MEANING
  • 1 From Soul-Making to Person-Making
  • 2 The Logical Form of Fiction
  • 3 The Emptiness of Literary Interpretation
  • 4 To Be But Not To Mean
  • 5 How Do Oracles Mean?
  • PART II SENSES AND NONSENSES: JOYCE'S FINNEGANS WAKE AND WITTGENSTEIN'S PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS
  • 6 A Twitterlitter of Nonsense:
  • 7 The Analogy between Persons and Words
  • 8 "The Human Body Is the Best Picture of the Human Soul"
  • 9 The Senses of Time
  • 10 Being Something and Meaning Something
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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