LEADER 04041nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910973087603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9780674028593 010 $a0674028597 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674028593 035 $a(CKB)1000000000805497 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23050605 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000155161 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11946801 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000155161 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10098428 035 $a(PQKB)10908336 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300693 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300693 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10328871 035 $a(OCoLC)923116695 035 $a(DE-B1597)589744 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674028593 035 $a(Perlego)1147787 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000805497 100 $a20040209d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFinding a replacement for the soul $emind and meaning in literature and philosophy /$fBrett Bourbon 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (xv, 273 p.) 300 $aFormerly CIP.$5Uk 311 08$a9780674012974 311 08$a0674012976 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 261-267) and index. 327 $aPreface Note on Abbreviations Introduction: What Are We When We Are Not? Part I The Surface of Language and the Absence of Meaning 1. From Soul-Making to Person-Making 2. The Logical Form of Fiction 3. The Emptiness of Literary Interpretation 4. To Be But Not To Mean 5. How Do Oracles Mean? Part II Senses and Nonsenses: Joyce's Finnegans Wake and Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations 6. A Twitterlitter of Nonsense: Askesis at Finnegans Wake 7. The Analogy between Persons and Words 8. "The Human Body Is the Best Picture of the Human Soul" 9. The Senses of Time 10. Being Something and Meaning Something Bibliography Acknowledgments Index 330 $aApproaching the study of literature as a unique form of the philosophy of language and mind - as a study of how we produce nonsense and imagine it as sense - this is a book about our human ways of making and losing meaning. 330 $bApproaching the study of literature as a unique form of the philosophy of language and mind--as a study of how we produce nonsense and imagine it as sense--this is a book about our human ways of making and losing meaning. Brett Bourbon asserts that our complex and variable relation with language defines a domain of meaning and being that is misconstrued and missed in philosophy, in literary studies, and in our ordinary understanding of what we are and how things make sense. Accordingly, his book seeks to demonstrate how the study of literature gives us the means to understand this relationship. The book itself is framed by the literary and philosophical challenges presented by Joyce's Finnegan's Wake and Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations . With reference to these books and the problems of interpretation and meaning that they pose, Bourbon makes a case for the fundamental philosophical character of the study of literature, and for its dependence on theories of meaning disguised as theories of mind. Within this context, he provides original accounts of what sentences, fictions, non-fictions, and poems are; produces a new account of the logical form of fiction and of the limits of interpretation that follow from it; and delineates a new and fruitful domain of inquiry in which literature, philosophy, and science intersect. 606 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy 606 $aMeaning (Philosophy) in literature 615 0$aLiterature$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aMeaning (Philosophy) in literature. 676 $a801 700 $aBourbon$b Brett$f1963-$01808596 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910973087603321 996 $aFinding a replacement for the soul$94358923 997 $aUNINA