Intangible materialism; the body, scientific knowledge, and the power of language.

9780816644681

Intangible materialism; the body, scientific knowledge, and the power of language.

Schleifer, Ronald.

U. of Minnesota Press

2009

243 pages

$25.00

Paperback

PN56

Schliefer (English and medicine, U. of Oklahoma) articulates a global sense of materialism in relation to mechanical analysis, historical explanations of natural selection, and the semiotic understanding of the symbolic, without recourse to any manner of supernaturalism. His topics include levels of understanding and the negative science of semiotics, Tourette Syndrome, the affect of poetry, the history of the hand, the power of narrative, memory, religious suffering, and the subject of poetry.

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