Format:
viii, 188 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
ISBN:
9780814213797
,
0814213790
Series Statement:
Cognitive approaches to culture
Content:
Nonsense: usage and uses -- Metaphor and nonsense -- The baroque: nonsense in prospect and retrospect -- Salutary nonsense: Keats, Kant, and Madame de Staël; or inspiration vs. fanaticism -- Neural nonsense: neuroaesthetics, hypnagogia, and the aesthetics of nonsense -- Perceptual nonsense: the "image made by chance," automaticity, and the aesthetic universal -- Assorted nonsense.
Content:
"This book explores the cognitive possibilities of nonsense, literary and philosophical--ranging from Immanuel Kant to Lewis Carol, from examinations of Asperger's Syndrome to the waking state--and demonstrates that there is an element of nonsense, or stage of nonsense, in the normal course of thought"--
Language:
English
Keywords:
Unsinn
;
Ästhetik
;
Apperzeption
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