Self, Logic, and Figurative Thinking

Informationen zum Autor Harwood Fisher Klappentext Harwood Fisher argues against neuroscientific and cognitive scientific explanations of mental states! which fail to account for the gaps between actions in the brain! cognitive operations! linguistic mapping! and a person's account of experience. Utilizing an array of thought ranging from the primitive and the dream to the artistic figure of speech! and extending to the scientific metaphor; Fisher draws on first-person methodologies to restore the conscious self to a primary function in the generation of figurative images. He uses the self to mediate between trope and logical form-and! conversely! to explicate the creation and articulation of the self by means of an interplay between logic and icon. According to Fisher! the self is neither a discursive agent of postmodern linguistics nor a socially determined entity. Rather! it is a historically situated! constituted place at the crossroads of conscious and unconscious actions and evolving contextual logics and figures.

Product details

• Authors: Harwood Fisher, Fisher Harwood
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2008
• EAN: 9780231145046
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14504-6
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Science: general issues, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology, SCIENCE / Cognitive Science, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality