Textual Narratives and a New Metaphysics

Raymond T. Shorthouse (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

161 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-72335-1 (ISBN)

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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. Two key questions are explored: what kind of rational unity may be affirmed which does not close or suspend reflection? and what kind of linguistic mediation may generate an extralinguistic, or transcendental element in establishing an ontological grounding for this affirmation? The response to both these questions is presented in terms of textual sonority, where Shorthouse draws upon, and develops, Maurice Merleau-Ponty's notion of sonorous being.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	18.06.2019
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Revivals
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	458 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-138-72335-5 / 1138723355
ISBN-13	978-1-138-72335-1 / 9781138723351
Zustand	Neuware