The experience of meaning /

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Author / Creator:Zwicky, Jan, 1955- author.
Imprint:Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12484991
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ISBN:9780773558519
0773558519
9780773558502
0773558500
9780773557420
9780773557437
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 7, 2019)
Summary:"The aim of this book is a recovery of interest in the experience of meaning. Zwicky defends the claim that we experience meaning in the apprehension of wholes and their internal structural relations. She provides examples of such insight in mathematics and physics, literature, music, and Plato's ancient theory of forms. Taken together, these essays constitute a powerful indictment of the aggressive reductionism and the reliance on calculative modes of thought that dominate our present conception of understanding, The Experience of Meaning proposes a more just epistemology, arguing for a new grammar of thought, a new way of understanding the relationship of human intelligence to the world. Engaging with philosophy, psychology, literature, fine arts, music, and environmental studies in a profound way, The Experience of Meaning will interest any reader who ponders the question of meaning and its relation to true human expression."--