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The Nonsense of Kant and Lewis Carroll

Author : Ben-Ami Scharfstein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022610589X
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book The Nonsense of Kant and Lewis Carroll written by Ben-Ami Scharfstein and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if Immanuel Kant floated down from his transcendental heights, straight through Alice’s rabbit hole, and into the fabulous world of Lewis Carroll? For Ben-Ami Scharfstein this is a wonderfully instructive scenario and the perfect way to begin this wide-ranging collection of decades of startlingly synthesized thought. Combining a deep knowledge of psychology, cultural anthropology, art history, and the history of religions—not to mention philosophy—he demonstrates again and again the unpredictability of writing and thought and how they can teach us about our experiences. Scharfstein begins with essays on the nature of philosophy itself, moving from an autobiographical account of the trials of being a comparativist to philosophy’s function in the outside world to the fear of death in Kant and Hume. From there he explores an impressive array of art: from China and Japan to India and the West; from an essay on sadistic and masochistic body art to one on the epistemology of the deaf and the blind. He then returns to philosophy, writing on Machiavelli and political ruthlessness, then on the ineffable, and closes with a review of Walter Kaufmann’s multivolume look at the essence of humanity, Discovering the Mind. Altogether, these essays are a testament to adventurous thought, the kind that leaps to the furthest reaches of the possible.

Alice in Space

Author : Gillian Beer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022656469X
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Alice in Space written by Gillian Beer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-01-26 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of Carroll's books about Alice explores the contextual knowledge of the time period in which it was written, addressing such topics as time, games, mathematics, and taxonomies.

A Defence of Nonsense

Author : Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book A Defence of Nonsense written by Gilbert Keith Chesterton and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Philosophy of Nonsense

Author : Jean-Jacques Lecercle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134902417
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of Nonsense written by Jean-Jacques Lecercle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Jean-Jacques Lecercle's remarkable Philosophy of Nonsense offers a sustained and important account of an area that is usually hastily dismissed. Using the resources of contemporary philosophy - notably Deleuze and Lyotard - he manages to bring out the importance of nonsense' - Andrew Benjamin, University of Warwick Why are we, and in particular why are philosophers and linguists, so fascinated with nonsense? Why do Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear appear in so many otherwise dull and dry academic books? This amusing, yet rigorous new book by Jean-Jacques Lecercle shows how the genre of nonsense was constructed and why it has proved so enduring and enlightening for linguistics and philosophy.

Necessary Nonsense

Author : Irving Massey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814276525
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (765 download)

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Download or read book Necessary Nonsense written by Irving Massey and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book explores the cognitive possibilities of nonsense, literary and philosophical--ranging from Immanuel Kant to Lewis Carol, from examinations of Asperger's Syndrome to the waking state--and demonstrates that there is an element of nonsense, or stage of nonsense, in the normal course of thought"--

Necessary Nonsense

Author : Irving Massey
Publisher : Cognitive Approaches to Cultur
ISBN 13 : 9780814213797
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Necessary Nonsense written by Irving Massey and published by Cognitive Approaches to Cultur. This book was released on 2018 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the cognitive possibilities of nonsense, literary and philosophical, from Kant to Carroll, from examinations of Asperger's to the waking state.

The Field of Nonsense

Author : Elizabeth Sewell
Publisher : London, Chatto
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Field of Nonsense written by Elizabeth Sewell and published by London, Chatto. This book was released on 1952 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Om nonsens-litteratur, belyst ved eksempler fra børnerim og fra værker af Edward Lear (1812-1888) og Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)

Can Different Cultures Think the Same Thoughts?

Author : Kenneth Dorter
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268103569
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book Can Different Cultures Think the Same Thoughts? written by Kenneth Dorter and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenneth Dorter’s Can Different Cultures Think the Same Thoughts? is a study of fundamental issues in metaphysics and ethics across major philosophical traditions of the world, including the way in which metaphysics can be a foundation for ethics, as well as the importance of metaphysics on its own terms. Dorter examines such questions through a detailed comparison of selected major thinkers and classic works in three global philosophical traditions, those of India, China, and the West. In each chapter Dorter juxtaposes and compares two or more philosophers or classic works from different traditions, from Spinoza and Shankara, to Confucius and Plato, to Marcus Aurelius and the Bhagavad Gita. In doing so he explores different perspectives and reveals limitations and assumptions that might otherwise be obscure. The goal of Dorter’s cross-cultural approach is to consider how far works from different cultures can be understood as holding comparable philosophical views. Although Dorter reveals commonalities across the different traditions, he makes no claim that there is such a thing as a universal philosophy. Clearly there are fundamental disagreements among the philosophers and works studied. Yet in each of the case studies of a particular chapter, we can discover a shared, or at least analogous, way of looking at issues across different cultures. All those interested in metaphysics, ethics, Indian philosophy, Chinese philosophy, and comparative philosophy will find much of interest in this book.

How the Brahmins Won

Author : Johannes Bronkhorst
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004315519
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book How the Brahmins Won written by Johannes Bronkhorst and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first study to systematically confront the question how Brahmanism, which was geographically limited and under threat during the final centuries BCE, transformed itself and spread all over South and Southeast Asia.

In Praise of Nonsense

Author : Winfried Menninghaus
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804783063
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book In Praise of Nonsense written by Winfried Menninghaus and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1999-10-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shells, leafwork, picture frames, hummingbirds, wallpaper decorations, hems of clothing—such are the examples Kant's Critique of Judgment offers for a "free" and purely aesthetic beauty. Menninghaus's book demonstrates that all these examples refer to a widely unknown debate on the arabesque and that Kant, in displacing it, addresses genuinely "modern" phenomena. The early Romantic poetics and literature of the arabesque follow and radicalize Kant's move. Menninghaus shows parergonality and "nonsense" to be two key features in the spread of the arabesque from architecture and the fine arts to philosophy and finally to literature. On the one hand, comparative readings of the parergon in Enlightenment aesthetics, Kant, and Schlegel reveal the importance of this term for establishing the very notion of a self-reflective work of art. On the other hand, drawing on Kant's posthumous anthropological notebooks, Menninghaus extrapolates an entire Kantian theory of what it means to produce nonsense and why the Critique of Judgment defines genius precisely through the power (as well as the dangers) of doing so. Ludwig Tieck's 1797 rewriting of Charles Perrault's famous Bluebeard tale (1697) explicitly claims to be an "arabesque" book "without any sense and coherence." Menninghaus's close reading of this capricious narrative reveals a specifically Romantic—as opposed, say, to a Victorian or dadaistic—type of nonsense. Benjamin's as well as Propp's, Lévi-Strauss's, and Meletinskij's oppositions of myth and fairy tale lend additional credit to a Romantic poetics that inaugurates "universal poetry" while performing a bizarre trajectory through arabesque ornament, nonsense, parergonality, and the fairy tale.

Kant and His Influence

Author : George MacDonald Ross
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 184714327X
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Kant and His Influence written by George MacDonald Ross and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-11 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illustrates the extent to which Kant's work has permeated wide areas of learing, across many disciplines, despite a general ignorance, especially in England, of the details of his highly technical philosophy. Consisting of nine major contributions to the Leeds Kant Conference in April 1990, Kant and his Influence shows how Kant's thought has had a marked effect on philosophers, both Continental and Analytic, social and art historians, theologians and Church leaders.

Creativity and Philosophy

Author : Berys Gaut
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351199773
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Creativity and Philosophy written by Berys Gaut and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creativity matters. We want people to be more creative and admire those who are. Yet creativity is deeply puzzling. Just what is it to be creative? Why is it valuable? Who or what can be creative and how? Creativity and Philosophy is an outstanding collection of specially commissioned chapters by leading philosophers who explore these problems and many more. It provides a comprehensive and creative picture of creativity, including the following themes: creativity as a virtue, imagination, epistemic virtue, moral virtue and personal vice; creativity with and without value, the definition of creativity, creative failures and suffering; creativity in nature, divine creativity and human agency; naturalistic explanations of creativity and the extended mind; creativity in philosophy, mathematics and logic, and the role of heuristics; creativity in art, morality and politics; individual and group creativity. A major feature of the collection is that it explores creativity not only from the perspective of art and aesthetics, but also from a variety of philosophical disciplines, including epistemology, philosophy of mind, philosophical psychology, philosophy of science, political philosophy and ethics. The volume is essential reading for anyone fascinated by creativity, whether their interests lie in philosophy, music, art and visual studies, literature, psychology, neuroscience, management or education, or they are simply intent on learning more about this vital human trait.

Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense

Author : Lewis Carroll
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141956690
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense written by Lewis Carroll and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collected and annotated edition of Carroll's brilliant, witty poems, edited by Gillian Beer. 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe...' wrote Lewis Carroll in his wonderfully playful poem of nonsense verse, 'Jabberwocky'. This new edition collects together the marvellous range of Carroll's poetry, including nonsense verse, parodies, burlesques, and more. Alongside the title piece are such enduringly wonderful pieces as 'The Walrus and the Carpenter', 'The Mock Turtle's Song', 'Father William' and many more. This edition also includes notes, a chronology and an introduction by Gillian Beer that discusses Carroll's love of puzzles and wordplay and the relationship of his poetry with the Alice books 'Opening at random Gillian Beer's new edition of Lewis Carroll's poems, Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense, guarantees a pleasurable experience - not all of it nonsensical' - Times Literary Supplement Lewis Carroll was the pen-name of the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Born in 1832, he was educated at Rugby School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he was appointed lecturer in mathematics in 1855, and where he spent the rest of his life. In 1861 he took deacon's orders, but shyness and a stammer prevented him from seeking the priesthood. His most famous works, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1872), were originally written for Alice Liddell, the daughter of the Dean of his college. Charles Dodgson died of bronchitis in 1898. Gillian Beer is King Edward VII Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Cambridge and past President of Clare Hall College. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature. Among her works are Darwin's Plots (1983; third edition, 2009), George Eliot (1986), Arguing with the Past: Essays in Narrative from Woolf to Sidney (1989), Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter (1996) and Virginia Woolf: The Common Ground (1996).

The Origins of Kant's Aesthetics

Author : Robert R. Clewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009209426
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Origins of Kant's Aesthetics written by Robert R. Clewis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized around eight core themes in aesthetics today, this book uncovers the complex development of Kant's aesthetic theory. It will be useful to advanced students and scholars in fields across the humanities and studies of the arts.

Language and Lewis Caroll

Author : Robert D. Sutherland
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 311080168X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Language and Lewis Caroll written by Robert D. Sutherland and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-02-13 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kant's Aesthetic Cognitivism

Author : Mojca Kuplen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350289531
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Kant's Aesthetic Cognitivism written by Mojca Kuplen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mojca Kuplen connects 18th-century German aesthetics to contemporary theories of self-knowledge in order to highlight the unique cognitive value of art. She does this through revisiting Kant's account of aesthetic ideas, and demonstrating how works of art can increase our understanding of abstract concepts whilst promoting self-knowledge. Addressing some of the most fundamental questions in contemporary aesthetics and philosophy of art, this study covers the value and importance of art, the relationship between art and beauty, the role of knowledge in art and the criteria for artistic excellence. It offers an insight into problems related to the apprehension of meaning and the cognitive processing of abstract representations that have been of interest to contemporary cognitive science. Kant's Aesthetic Cognitivism presents these arguments in a lucid and wide-ranging engagement with the history of aesthetics and current academic debates to understand what art is and why it is valuable.

Lewis Carroll's "Alice" and Cognitive Narratology

Author : Francesca Arnavas
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110689278
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Lewis Carroll's "Alice" and Cognitive Narratology written by Francesca Arnavas and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in an age that is witnessing a growing interest in narrative studies, cognitive neuroscientific tools, mind studies and artificial intelligence hypotheses. This book therefore aims to expand the exegesis of Carroll's "Alice" books, aligning them with the current intellectual environment. The theoretical force of this volume lies in the successful encounter between a great book (and all its polysemous ramifications) and a new interpretative point of view, powerful enough to provide a new original contribution, but well grounded enough not to distort the text itself. Moreover, this book is one of the first to offer a complete, thorough analysis of one single text through the theoretical lens of cognitive narratology, and not just as a series of brief examples embedded within a more general discussion. It emphasises in a more direct, effective way the actual novelty and usefulness of the dialogue established between narrative theory and the cognitive sciences. It links specific concepts elaborated in the theory of cognitive narratology with the analysis of the "Alice" books, helping in this way to discuss, question and extend the concepts themselves, opening up new interpretations and practical methods.