The Ways of Naysaying (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
272
Utgivningsdatum
2001-01-01
Upplaga
240
Förlag
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Illustrationer
bibliography, index
Dimensioner
229 x 152 x 19 mm
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549 g
Antal komponenter
1
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HC gerader Rücken mit Schutzumschlag
ISBN
9780742512283

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The Ways of Naysaying (inbunden)

The Ways of Naysaying

No, Not, Nothing, and Nonbeing

av Eva Brann
Inbunden Engelska, 2001-01-01
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No, that diminutive but independent vocable, begins its great role early in human life and never loses it. For not only can it head a negative sentence, announcing its judgement, or answer a question, implying its negated content, it can, and mostly does, in the beginning of speech, express an assertion of the resistant will-sometimes just that and nothing more. The adult antiphony to the toddler's incessant no is another no, that of preventive command, and the great commandments of later life continue to be prohibitions: Nine of the Ten Commandments are in the negative. Eva Brann explores nothingness in the third book of her trilogy, which has treated imagination, time and now naysaying. If we want to understand something of imagination, memory and time, she argues, we must mount an inquiry into what it means to say something is not what it claims to be or is not there or is nonexistent or is affected by Nonbeing.
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Brann's account of the negative is a useful and worthwhile addition to the philosophical shelves, and it is to be hoped that it inspires more work on the issue. * Philosophy in Review *

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Eva Brann teaches at St. John's College, Maryland.

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Chapter 1 Preface: Purpose and Plan Chapter 2 Introduction: The Words of Naysaying Chapter 3 Aboriginal Naysaying: WillfulNo Chapter 4 The Negation of Speech: LogicalNot Chapter 5 Non-fact and Fiction: LogicalNonexistence Chapter 6 Thinking the Unsayable: PhilosophicNonbeing Chapter 7 The Moving Soul of Thought: DialecticalNegativity Chapter 8 The Absolute Opposite:Nothing Chapter 9 Conclusions: What, Then, Is Naysaying?