Armen Avanessian, Anke Hennig

Metanoia (eBook, ePUB)

A Speculative Ontology of Language, Thinking, and the Brain

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Fusing speculative realism, analytical and linguistic philosophy this book theorises the fundamental impact the experience of reading has on us. In reading, language provides us with a world and meaning becomes perceptible. We can connect with another subjectivity, another place, another time. At its most extreme, reading changes our understanding of the world around us. Metanoia- meaning literally a change of mind or a conversion-refers to this kind of new way of seeing. To see the world in a new light is to accept that our thinking has been irrevocably transformed. How is that possible? And is it merely an intellectual process without any impact on the world outside our brains?

Innovatively tackling these questions, this book mobilizes discussions from linguistics, literary theory, philosophy of language, and cognitive science. It re-articulates linguistic consciousness by underlining the poetic, creative moment of language and sheds light on the ability of language to transform not only our thinking but the world around us as well.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350004740
• Artikelnr.: 49273143

Autorenporträt

Armen Avanessian is an Austrian philosopher, literary theorist, and political theorist. He has taught at the Free University of Berlin, Germany, the School of Critical Studies, California Institute of the Arts, USA, and at the Art Institute, HN Academy Basel, Switzerland. He is the co-editor, with Suhail Malik of Genealogies of Speculation (Bloomsbury 2016).