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The Imagination Of Reference Ii: Perceiving, Indicating, Naming,Used
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Product Description From the Foreword:'Like a musical fugue, MorotSir's meditations lead up to impressive grand conclusions on religion and the arts as universal referents. . . . In this dense and exquisitely erudite essay, the author returns to the philosophical starting point of his professional career, as expressed in his thse d'tat on La Pense negative (1947). Without overly simplifying his approach, one could qualify it as a kind of vector analysis of referential practices. Central to his thought is the paradox that reference (and with it, language) can but refer to itself. Equally central is his 'willif wavering at timesto remain a coherent and stubborn prisoner of language,' i.e., systematically to explore the full range of linguistic experience, the dynamics of the act of naming. Using once again the meditation as his preferred mode of expression, MorotSir offers in this second volume a fitting complement to the challenges he issued and the expectations he raised in volume I of The Imagination of Reference.' Raymond GayCrosier, University of Florida At the convergence of philosophy and psychology, this work continues the venture of 'meditating the linguistic condition' which Edouard MorotSir began in The Imagination of Reference, this time concentrating on 'perceiving, indicating, naming.' Together, the two volumes constitute the intellectual autobiography of a philosopher and his response to MerleauPonty's famous book on phenomenology. While the first book examined psychological, ontological, and epistemological presuppositions, this one explores the positive consequences of reference in action, with examples from religion, painting, and poetry. MorotSir visualizes human imagination as a field marked by four corners: perception, conception, memory, and judgment. Acting as point of intersection and center of gravitation in the center of that field, reference eventually reclaims the primacy of imagination. 'We are namers and nameds,' he concludes. 'Without names we would be blind, deaf, and mute.' Edouard MorotSir, who died in 1993, was the Kenan Professor Emeritus of French at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the author of the companion volume, The Imagination of Reference: Meditating the Linguistic Condition (UPF, 1993). He was also the author of many articles and books, including La Pense negative, Philosophie et mystique, La Mtaphysique de Pascal, and Les Mots de JeanPaul Sartre. He taught logic and the philosophy of science at the universities of Bordeaux and Lille and served for twelve years as the cultural counselor to the French Embassy in the United States. About the Author Edouard MorotSir, who died in 1993, was Kenan Professor Emeritus of French at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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