Metanoia: A Speculative Ontology of Language, Thinking, and the Brain
Nov 2017 · Bloomsbury Publishing
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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.
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.
About the author
Armen Avanessian is Visiting Faculty in the MA Aesthetics and Politics program in the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts, USA, and Visiting Lecturer at the Art Institute, FHN Academy Basel, Switzerland. In 2012 he founded a bilingual research platform on Speculative Poetics, including a series of events, translations and publications: www.spekulative-poetik.de. He also is the co-editor of Genealogies of Speculation (Bloomsbury 2016).
Anke Hennig teaches at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, in the Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature and is a Research Fellow in the Collaborative Research Centre 626 'Aesthetic Experience and the Dissolution of Artistic Limits'. Her research interests lie in poetics and the philosophy of literature, Russian Formalism, the avant-garde, and totalitarian aesthetics.
Anke Hennig teaches at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, in the Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature and is a Research Fellow in the Collaborative Research Centre 626 'Aesthetic Experience and the Dissolution of Artistic Limits'. Her research interests lie in poetics and the philosophy of literature, Russian Formalism, the avant-garde, and totalitarian aesthetics.
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