Textual Narratives and a New Metaphysics

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-138-72333-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 169 Seiten

This title was first published in 2002: Drawing extensively upon recent developments in post-phenomenological philosophy, especially 'the textual turn' exemplified by Paul Ricoeur, Jacques Derrida and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, this book explores the role that textual narratives have in the possibility of reasonably affirming the intelligibility of the world. Shorthouse reveals how textual narratives can play a primary role in affirming rational meaning in a continuing hermeneutical process. Offering a radically new approach to metaphysics, Shorthouse demonstrates that rational meaning is ontologically grounded in terms of a transcendental viewpoint or perspective. It is this grounding which transcends the language and the self in a hermeneutical movement towards the affirmation of rational meaning. Revealing that the critical characteristic of reading a narrative is rhythm, Shorthouse explains how each narrative has a rhythmic structure, or prose rhythm, in relation to its semantic and figurative characteristics, activity and mood.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shorthouse, Raymond T.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Preface; Introduction; The question of presence; Presence and metaphor; Metaphor and narrative; Prose rhythm: the mediation of sonorous being; The primordial dialectic and temporal perspective; Self and other; The creative imagination; Reasonable hope; A new metaphysics; Bibliography; Appendix; Index.