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Language and the Ineffable

Author : Louis S. Berger
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739147153
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Language and the Ineffable written by Louis S. Berger and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One's conception of language is central in fields such as linguistics, but less obviously so in fields studying matters other than language. In Language and the Ineffable Louis S. Berger demonstrates the flaws of the received view of language and the difficulties they raise in multiple disciplines. This breakthrough study sees past failures as inevitable, since reformers retained key detrimental features of the received view. Berger undertakes a new reform, grounded in an unconventional model of individual human development. A central radical and generative feature is the premise that the neonate's world is holistic, boundary-less, unimaginable, impossible to describe_in other words, ineffable_completely distinct from what Berger calls 'adultocentrism.' The study is a wholly original approach to epistemology, separate from the traditional interpretations offered by skepticism, idealism, and realism. The work rejects both the independence of the world and the possibility of true judgment_a startling shift in the traditional responses to the standard schema. Language and the Ineffable evolves a unique conception of language that challenges and unsettles sacrosanct beliefs, not only about language, but other disciplines as well. Berger demonstrates the framework's potential for elucidating a wide range of problems in such diverse fields as philosophy, logic, psychiatry, general-experimental psychology, psychotherapy, and arithmetic. The reconceptualization marks a revolutionary turn in language studies that reaches across academic boundaries.

Language and the Ineffable

Author : Louis S. Berger
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739147137
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Effing the Ineffable

Author : Wesley J. Wildman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438471254
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Effing the Ineffable written by Wesley J. Wildman and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A meditation on how religious language tries to limn the liminal, conceive the inconceivable, speak the unspeakable, and say the unsayable. In Effing the Ineffable, Wesley J. Wildman confronts the human obsession with ultimate reality and our desire to conceive and speak of this reality through religious language, despite the seeming impossibility of doing so. Each chapter is a meditative essay on an aspect of life that, for most people, is fraught with special spiritual significance: dreaming, suffering, creating, slipping, balancing, eclipsing, loneliness, intensity, and bliss. These moments can inspire religious questioning and commitment, and, in extreme situations, drive us in search of ways to express what matters most to us. Drawing upon American pragmatist, Anglo-American analytic, and Continental traditions of philosophical theology, Wildman shows how, through direct description, religious symbolism, and phenomenological experience, the language games of religion become a means to attempt, and, in some sense, to accomplish this task. Wesley J. Wildman is Professor of Philosophy, Theology, and Ethics at Boston University. His many books include Religious Philosophy as Multidisciplinary Comparative Inquiry: Envisioning a Future for the Philosophy of Religion and Fidelity with Plausibility: Modest Christologies in the Twentieth Century, both also published by SUNY Press.

Voicing the Ineffable

Author : Siglind Bruhn
Publisher : Pendragon Press
ISBN 13 : 9781576470893
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Voicing the Ineffable written by Siglind Bruhn and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between music and religion has long been a clearly delineated one. Up to the late Middle Ages, music employed for ritual expressions of faith in sacred contexts was contrasted with secular music, then mostly played in open spaces. The former was believed to aid in the communication of divine truths, while the latter was suspected of arousing sensuality and thus potentially leading away from the spiritual perspective of life. In subsequent centuries, music entered first the courtly salons, then the concert hall and the home. Such music, created for virtuoso performance or for the enjoyment in private chambers, occasionally made room for an expression of religious experiences outside the dedicated spaces of worship. This aspect is particularly intriguing in instrumental music, where allusions to extra-musical messages are at best hinted at in titles or explanatory notes, and in those cases of vocal music where it can be shown that the musical language adds significant nuances to the verbal text. On the basis of various case studies that transcend a music-analytical approach in the direction of the hermeneutic perspective, this volume explores in which ways the musical language in itself, independently of an explicitly sacred context, communicates the ineffable. The discussion focuses on the musical means and devices employed to this effect and on the question what the presence of religious messages in certain works of secular music tells us about the spirituality of an era.

Music and the Ineffable

Author : Vladimir Jankélévitch
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069126838X
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Music and the Ineffable written by Vladimir Jankélévitch and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic work on the philosophy of music—now available in English to a new generation of readers Vladimir Jankélévitch left behind a remarkable body of work steeped as much in philosophy as in music. His writings on moral quandaries reflect a lifelong devotion to music and performance, and, as a counterpoint, he wrote on music aesthetics and on modernist composers such as Fauré, Debussy, and Ravel. Music and the Ineffable brings together these two threads, the philosophical and the musical, as an extraordinary quintessence of his thought. Jankélévitch deals with classical issues in the philosophy of music, including metaphysics and ontology. These are a point of departure for a sustained examination and dismantling of the idea of musical hermeneutics in its conventional sense. Music, Jankélévitch argues, is not a hieroglyph, not a language or sign system; nor does it express emotions, depict landscapes or cultures, or narrate. On the other hand, music cannot be imprisoned within the icy, morbid notion of pure structure or autonomous discourse. Yet if musical works are not a cipher awaiting the decoder, music is nonetheless entwined with human experience, and with the physical, material reality of music in performance. Music is "ineffable," as Jankélévitch puts it, because it cannot be pinned down, and has a capacity to engender limitless resonance in several domains. Jankélévitch's singular work on music was central to such figures as Roland Barthes and Catherine Clément, and the complex textures and rhythms of his lyrical prose sound a unique note, until recently seldom heard outside the francophone world.

Language, Music, and Mind

Author : Diana Raffman
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0262519356
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Language, Music, and Mind written by Diana Raffman and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1993-02-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first cognitivist theory of the nature of ineffable, or verbally inexpressible, musical knowledge. Taking a novel approach to a longstanding problem in the philosophy of art, Diana Raffman provides the first cognitivist theory of the nature of ineffable, or verbally inexpressible, musical knowledge. In the process she also sheds light on central issues in the theory of mind. Raffman invokes recent theory in linguistics and cognitive psychology to provide an account of the content and etiology of musical knowledge that "can not be put into words." Within the framework of Lerdahl and Jackendoff's generative theory of music perception, she isolates three kinds of ineffability attending our conscious knowledge of music—access, feeling, and nuance ineffability—and shows how these arise. Raffman makes a detailed comparison of linguistic and musical understanding, culminating in an attack on the traditional idea that human emotions constitute the meaning or semantic content of music. She compares her account of musical ineffability to several traditional approaches to the problem, particularly those of Nelson Goodman and Stanley Cavell. In the concluding chapter, Raffman explores a significant obstacle that her theory poses to Daniel Dennett's propositional theory of consciousness.

Deep Refrains

Author : Michael Gallope
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022648369X
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Deep Refrains written by Michael Gallope and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep Refrains is a wide-ranging investigation of the philosophy of music. Michael Gallope asks what it means for music to "speak” when it is not saying anything in particular. To answer this question, he turns to the writings of some of the most revered thinkers of the twentieth century--Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno, Vladimir Jank�l�vitch, Gilles Deleuze, and F�lix Guattari. For these theorists, Gallope argues, the paradox that music is both ineffable and yet harbors deep philosophical wisdoms is fertile ground for thinking outside of conceptual boundaries. It provides the lens for a utopian potentiality that inspires hope (Bloch), an ethical critique of modernity (Adorno), an exemplification of the ephemeral movement of lived time (Jank�l�vitch), and a sonic extension of the syncopated, contrapuntal rhythms of sense and social life (Deleuze and Guattari). Gallope argues that a philosophical engagement with music’s ineffability rarely calls for silence or declarations of the unspeakable. Rather, it asks us to think through the ways in which the impact of music is made to address complex philosophical problems specific to the modern world.

Damascius' Problems and Solutions Concerning First Principles

Author : Damaskios
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195150295
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Damascius' Problems and Solutions Concerning First Principles written by Damaskios and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Problems and Solutions exhibits a thorough-going critique of Proclean metaphysics, starting with the principle that all that exists proceeds from a single cause, proceeding to critique the Proclean triadic view of procession and reversion, and severely undermining the status of intellectual reversion in establishing being as the intelligible object. Damascius investigates the internal contradictions lurking within the theory of descent as a whole, showing that similarity of cause and effect is vitiated in the case of processions where one order (e.g., intellect) gives rise to an entirely different order (e.g., soul). --

Ineffability and Philosophy

Author : André Kukla
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134299710
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Ineffability and Philosophy written by André Kukla and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book asks whether the notion of there being a truth, or a state of affairs, or knowledge that can't be expressed linguistically is a coherent notion.

The Ineffable Name of God - Man

Author : Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826418937
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book The Ineffable Name of God - Man written by Abraham Joshua Heschel and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2007-01-25 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written between 1927 and 1933—and never published in English before—this is the intimate spiritual diary of a devout European Jew, loyal to the revelation at Sinai and afflicted with reverence for all human beings.

Ineffable

Author : Kaye Curto
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (959 download)

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Download or read book Ineffable written by Kaye Curto and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-10-10 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you build your whole life around someone... who do you become once they're gone?Let's talk about romance, redamancy and other lies I believed. What are you supposed to do when "The One" goes looking for someone else? It is this exact instance that leaves Allyson Bennett at a loss for words. Nothing in her extensive vocabulary can describe the feeling of hearing that her hopes and plans for the future had been spotted on a coffee date with a stranger. Alone with her thoughts, she questions everything she'd fallen into believing. What if even the most perfect relationships are not destined for happily ever after? Does that mean a relationship isn't worth it if there is no chance at "forever" with that person?Do the people who hurt you the most deserve a second chance?What if your soulmate falls in love with someone else?What if, outside of your relationship, you have absolutely no idea who you are? And perhaps the most foreboding: What if the only way you can love yourself, is by first losing it all?Author, Kaye Curto, embraces the metanoia that often gets swept under the rug in debut novel, INEFFABLE.

Ineffability and Its Metaphysics

Author : Silvia Jonas
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN 13 : 9781349954247
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (542 download)

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Download or read book Ineffability and Its Metaphysics written by Silvia Jonas and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2018-04-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can art, religion, or philosophy afford ineffable insights? If so, what are they? The idea of ineffability has puzzled philosophers from Laozi to Wittgenstein. In Ineffability and its Metaphysics: The Unspeakable in Art, Religion and Philosophy, Silvia Jonas examines different ways of thinking about what ineffable insights might involve metaphysically, and shows which of these are in fact incoherent. Jonas discusses the concepts of ineffable properties and objects, ineffable propositions, ineffable content, and ineffable knowledge, examining the metaphysical pitfalls involved in these concepts. Ultimately, she defends the idea that ineffable insights as found in aesthetic, religious, and philosophical contexts are best understood in terms of self-acquaintance, a particular kind of non-propositional knowledge. Ineffability as a philosophical topic is as old as the history of philosophy itself, but contributions to the exploration of ineffability have been sparse. The theory developed by Jonas makes the concept tangible and usable in many different philosophical contexts.

Milton and the Ineffable

Author : Noam Reisner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199572623
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Milton and the Ineffable written by Noam Reisner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situating Milton's poetics of ineffability in the context of the intellectual cross-currents of Renaissance humanism and Protestant theology, this text reassesses Milton's poetry in light of the literary and conceptual problems posed by the poet's attempt to put into words that which is unsayable and beyond representation.

The First Principle in Late Neoplatonism

Author : Jonathan Greig
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004439099
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The First Principle in Late Neoplatonism written by Jonathan Greig and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The First Principle, Jonathan Greig offers a new examination of the Neoplatonic notion of the One and the respective causal frameworks behind the One in the two late Neoplatonists, Proclus and Damascius (5th–6th centuries A.D.).

The Language of Ontology

Author : J. T. M. Miller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192648535
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book The Language of Ontology written by J. T. M. Miller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metaphysical and ontological debates, concerning what exists and the nature of reality, are perennial features of the philosophical landscape. However, some have argued that ontological debates are non-substantive, pointless, trivial, incoherent, or impossible. Debates about whether tables exist, for example, or about the nature of reality, are taken to be in some way deficient. This has led to a burgeoning literature studying the nature of metaphysical and ontological disputes themselves. One major debate within this context concerns the language of ontology. The central question is whether the nature of language influences or limits our ability to engage productively in ontological disputes. While we typically think that our language describes the world, or at least can accurately describe the world, there have been many who have argued that the nature of language inherently influences and limits our attempts to understand the nature of reality-that our claims about what exists are, in fact, merely a reflection of how we happen to speak or think. The Language of Ontology collects chapters from established participants in the debate alongside new voices, to explore the range of issues relating to our ability or inability to get beyond the limits of our language.

Raimon Panikkar

Author : Peter C. Phan
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0227176340
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (271 download)

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Download or read book Raimon Panikkar written by Peter C. Phan and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raimon Panikkar: A Companion to his Life and Th ought is a guide to the life, work and thought of Raimon Panikkar, a self-professed Buddhist-Christian-Hindu philosopher and theologian. A man of deep and wide learning and an extremely prolifi c author, Panikkar is equally at home in various religious and cultural traditions and embodies in himself the ideals of intercultural, intrareligious, and interreligious dialogues. This book explicates Panikkar’s basic vision of life as the harmonious rhythm of divinity, humanity, and the cosmos, which he terms “cosmotheandrism,” and shows how it permeates and illumines his articulations of the central Christian doctrines. Given the complexity and diffi culty of Panikkar’s thought this book is a welcome companion for a course on Panikkar and for a general reader who wishes to understand one of the most profound and orginal thinkers of out time.

Problems and Perspectives in Religious Discourse

Author : John A. Grimes
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791417911
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Problems and Perspectives in Religious Discourse written by John A. Grimes and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious discourse uses ordinary language in an extraordinary way. This book surveys Western and Indian discussions of the nature and aspects of religious discourse. It presents the first cross-cultural elucidation of Advaita Vedānta as religious discourse.