Name: Intangible Materialism: The Body, Scientific Knowledge, and the Power of Language (en Inglés)
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Author: Ronald Schleifer
ISBN: 9780816644681

portada Intangible Materialism: The Body, Scientific Knowledge, and the Power of Language (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Univ Of Minnesota Pr

Autor

Ronald Schleifer

Año

2009

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

272

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

0816644683

ISBN13

9780816644681

N° edición

Categorías

Teoría literaria
Semiología

Intangible Materialism: The Body, Scientific Knowledge, and the Power of Language (en Inglés)

Ronald Schleifer (Autor) · Univ Of Minnesota Pr · Tapa Blanda

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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 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 materialism for the information age. He presents a materialistic account of human bodily experience by delving into language and literature that powerfully represents our faces, voices, hands, and pain. For example, he examines the material resources of poetic “literariness” as it is revealed in the condition of Tourette’s syndrome. Schleifer also investigates gestures of the hand in the formation of sociality, and he studies pain as both a physiological and phenomenological experience.This ambitious work explores physiological analyses, evolutionary explanations, and semiotic descriptions of materialism to reveal how aspects of physical existence discover meaning in experience.