Poetry and Mind
Fordham University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8232-7964-7 (ISBN)
Poetry grants us the ability to move “beyond the limits of thought” and to explore the beyond of cognition. It teaches us to think differently. An elliptic response to Wittgenstein’s point of arrival in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, this book is first and foremost an interdisciplinary study of poetry, drawing on literary, philosophical, and scientific traditions. The work conducted on minds and brains over the last decades in psychology, artificial intelligence, and neuroscience cannot be ignored if, as humanists, we are interested in the way we think. Dubreuil thus calls for a constant dialogue with the positive examination of cognition to better situate the normal regimes of thought, as well as to underline the other mental possibilities that literature opens up.
Poetry and Mind shows that poetry—a widespread and perhaps universal phenomenon among humans—arises through syntactic structures, cognitive binding, and mental regulations, but that, in going through them, it also exceeds them. The best poems, then, are not only thought experiments but actual thinking experiments for the unthinkable. They expand the usual semantics of natural languages, and singularly deploy the rhetorical armature of speech. Made of iterations and linguistic reorganizations, they exceed their own algorithms and, often, they become reflexive, strange, and cognitively dissonant. They provide detachable, movable, and livable significations to our selves.
The literary scope of this book is more than “global”: it is uniquely broad and comparative, encompassing dozens of different traditions, oral or written, from all continents, from Ancient times to the contemporary era, with some thirty specific readings of texts, ranging from Sophocles to Gertrude Stein, from Wang Wei to Aimé Césaire, and from cuneiform tablet to rap music. Together, Dubreuil’s readings and elaborations offer a major reappraisal of the relations between creation, language and our embodied brains.
Laurent Dubreuil is a Professor of Comparative Literature, Romance Studies, and Cognitive Science at Cornell University and a Senior International Professor at the Tsinghua University Institute for World Literatures and Cultures. His most recent books are The Intellective Space: Thinking Beyond Cognition and The Refusal of Politics.
Foreword by Gale A. Brewer ix
Foreword by Ruben Diaz, Jr. xi
Part I: Overview
1 Housing Issues and Experiences 3
2 Getting Started at Settlement Housing Fund 11
Part II: A West Bronx Story
3 Walton and Townsend 19
4 Deciding to Own and Competing to Win 30
5 Collaborations and Battles 39
6 Here Come the Families 49
7 The Stucco Falls Off and the Playground Collapses 61
8 Finding Jack 67
9 Community Programs, Philosophy, and Achievements 76
10 New Settlement Community Campus: The Schools, Center, and Pool 83
11 A Few of the Families 103
12 New Settlement Today 127
Part III: A Tale of Two Bridges
13 Two Bridges: The Early Years 137
14 Two Bridges Houses 143
15 Lands End I 152
16 Lands End II 163
17 The Pathmark 172
18 Two Bridges Townhouses 180
19 Two Bridges Senior Housing 187
20 Two Bridges Tower 195
21 The Future for Two Bridges 213
Part IV: Looking Ahead
22 Lessons and Recommendations 219
Appendix: List of Federal, State, and Local Programs 243
Acknowledgments 247
Index 249
Erscheinungsdatum | 16.04.2018 |
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Reihe/Serie | Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory |
Zusatzinfo | 8 |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8232-7964-2 / 0823279642 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8232-7964-7 / 9780823279647 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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