Author: Antoine Mooij
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004373667
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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The Neo-Kantian philosopher Cassirer and the psychoanalyst Lacan are two key figures in the so-called medial turn in philosophy: the notion that any form of access to reality is mediated by symbols (images, words, signifiers). This explains why the theories of both philosophers merit a description in their own unique idioms, as well as having their respective basic tenets compared. It will be argued that, rather surprisingly, these tenets turn out be complementary - actually correcting each other – based on their shared notion of man as an animal symbolicum. Its fruitfulness will be substantiated for a limited number of topics within the humanities: perception, language, politics and ethics, and mental disorder, all to be considered from this perspective.
Author: A.W.M. Mooij
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004187855
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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This book is intended to contribute towards a justification of the human sciences. Its basic phenomenological assuption is that man is an interpreting being, in the domains of experience, desire and freedom of will. An elaboration is offered from the perspectives of psychopathology, psychoanlysis and law.
Author: George Smith
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000533751
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 217
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Focusing on the aesthetic representation of trauma, George Smith outlines the nexus points between poetics and hermeneutics and shows how a particular kind of thinker, the artist-philosopher, practices interpretation in an entirely different way from traditional hermeneutics. Taking a transhistorical and global view, Smith engages artists, writers, and thinkers from Western and non-Western periods, regions, and cultures. Thus, we see that poetic hermeneutics reconstitutes philosophy and art as hybridizations of art and science, the artist and the philosopher, subject and object. In turn, the artist-philosopher's poetic-hermeneutic reconstitution of philosophy and art is meant to transform human consciousness. This book will be of interest to artists and scholars working in studio practice, art history, aesthetics, philosophy, cultural studies, history of ideas, history of consciousness, psychoanalytic studies, myth studies, literary studies, and creative writing.
Author: Antoine Mooij
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9401208719
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 295
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Preliminary Material -- The Medical Discourse: The Exclusion of Psychic Reality -- The History of Hermeneutical Psychiatry -- The Relationship between the Psychic and Physical Reality -- Empiricism in Psychiatry -- Three Forms of Hermeneutics -- Psychic Reality and the Symbolic Function in Triplicate -- Three Psychopathological Structures and Nine Subject Positions -- The Interpretation of a Life History -- Epilogue -- Table Outlining Psychopathological Structures -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index.
Author: Marcello Barbieri
Publisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781600215742
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Biosemiotics (bios = life and semion = sign) is an interdisciplinary science that studies communication and signification in living systems. Communication is the essential characteristic of life. An organism is a message to future generations that specifies how to survive and reproduce. Any autocatalytic system transfers information (ie initial conditions) to its progeny so that daughter systems will eventually reach the same state as their parent. Self-reproducing systems have a semantic closure because they define themselves in their progeny. A sign (defined in a broadest sense) is an object that is a part of some self-reproducing system. A sign is always useful for the system and its value can be determined by its contribution to the reproductive value of the entire system. The major trend in the evolution of signs is the increase of their complexity via development of new hierarchical levels, ie, metasystem transitions. This book presents new research in this dynamic field.
Author: Roberto Harari
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
ISBN: 1590516559
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 363
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Designed for novices as well as students of psychology and literary criticism, these systematic lectures do much to clarify Lacan's groundbreaking work on the birth of the subject and its links with Freud's theory of drives. Moreover, they answer some of the criticisms that have been leveled at Lacan by forms of psychoanalysis unable or unwilling to incorporate his ideas.
Author: Steve G. Lofts
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791493016
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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This systematic introduction to Ernst Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms demonstrates how his approach transforms the project of modernity in accord with the limitations of the modern conception of rationality. At the same time, this book functions as an introduction to Cassirer's thought.
Author: Eric v.d. Luft
Publisher: Gegensatz Press
ISBN: 162130700X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Since the 1970s I have pursued three separate but overlapping and sometimes simultaneous careers: (1) philosopher / writer / teacher / historian of the long nineteenth century, 1789-1914; (2) editor / translator / photographer / publisher / biographer / encyclopedist; (3) cataloging librarian / rare books and special collections librarian / historian of medicine. Somehow these three vocations have garnered me some acclaim, even an entry in Who's Who in America. Each of them has resulted in some published or presented works. Because these works have been scattered in a wide variety of venues, some of which have gone out of print or have otherwise become generally unavailable - and of course with the oral presentations being gone as soon as they are given - I have thought it wise to select, epitomize, and bring them together in one place - here. Thus, what follows in these volumes is what I consider to be the most important of my shorter works.
Author: Gilbert D. Chaitin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521497657
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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This is the first book to explore the full range and import of Lacan's theory of poetry and its relationship to his understanding of the subject and historicity. Gilbert Chaitin's lucid and accessible study of this famously complex thinker shows how Lacan moves beyond the traditionally hostile polarities of mythos and logos, poetics and philosophy, to conceive of the subject as a complex interplay between psychoanalysis, rationality and history. Lacan's incorporation of historical necessity into the formation of subjectivity enables him to illuminate the role literature plays in the creation of selfhood. Lacan's metaphor of the subject, Chaitin argues, draws not only on Saussure, Jakobson, Freud, Heidegger and Hegel but on hitherto unacknowledged sources such as Bertrand Russell and I.A. Richards. Chaitin explores the ambiguities, contradictions and singularities of Lacan's immensely influential work to provide a definitive account of the theoretical development across his entire career.
Author: John Shannon Hendrix
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031632575
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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