Metaphysical Community The Interplay of the Senses and the Intellect

Name: Metaphysical Community The Interplay of the Senses and the Intellect
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ISBN: 9780292785298

ISBN-10: 0292785291

ISBN-13: 9780292785298

Edition: 1996

Authors: Greg Urban

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Starting with the post-structuralist idea that truth systems are lodged in discourse, and that discourse varies from society to society, Greg Urban seeks to discover the nature and extent of that variation. His journey to an Amerindian society in which dreams are more prominent than everyday aspects of the sensible world leads him to radically reformulate one of the main problematics of Western thought: the relationship between our sensations of the world and the understandings we form of them. Metaphysical Community proposes that this dichotomy comes from the interplay between two sides of discourse-its intelligible side as a carrier of meanings, and its sensible side as…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 1/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments



A Tapir's Heart



We the Living



The Hole in the Sky



A Lock of Hair in a Ball of Wax



The Jaguar's Spots



This Is Your Making



Rocks That Talk



Between Myth and Dream


Notes


References


Index