Intangible Materialism : The Body, Scientific Knowledge, and the Power of Language /

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Taking as his point of departure Norbert Weiner's statement that information is basic to understanding materialism in our era, Ronald Schleifer shows how discoveries of modern physics have altered conceptions of matter and energy and the ways in which both information theory and the study of li...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Schleifer, Ronald
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Semiotics.
Materialism in literature.
Materialism.
Literature > Philosophy.
Literature and science.
Human body (Philosophy)
Human body in literature.
PHILOSOPHY > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Litterature et sciences.
Corps humain (Philosophie)
Corps humain dans la litterature.
Materialisme.
Materialisme dans la litterature.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: materialist literature
  • Intangible materialism
  • The faces of consilience: levels of understanding and the negative science of semiotics
  • Material voices: Tourette syndrome, neurobiology, and the affect of poetry
  • The history of the hand: Peirce's index, attention, and the power of narrative
  • Pain, memory, and religious suffering: materiality and the subject of poetry.

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