Intangible materialism : the body, scientific knowledge, and the power of language / / Ronald Schleifer

• Autore: Schleifer Ronald
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Disciplina: 809.9338
• Soggetto topico: Materialism in literature; Materialism; Human body in literature; Human body (Philosophy); Literature and science; Literature - Philosophy; Semiotics
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 literature can enrich these conceptions. Expanding the reductive notion of "the material" as simply matter and energy, he formulates a new, more inclusive idea of materialism.Schleifer's project attempts to bridge the divisions between the humanities and the sciences and to create a nonreductive materialis
• Titolo autorizzato: Intangible materialism
• ISBN: 0-8166-6780-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821699803321
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