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Symbolism 2019: Special Focus: Beyond Mind

Symbolism 2019: Special Focus: Beyond Mind

Lushetich, Natasha

Hardcover

Series: Symbolism, Book 19

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 3110667487
ISBN13: 9783110667486
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: Nov 18 2019
Pages: 345
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

Special Focus editor: Natasha Lushetich
Series editors: Rüdiger Ahrens, Florian Kläger, Klaus Stierstorfer

Symbolism is cohesive. It gathers heterogeneity over time, across fields of human endeavor and systems of communication. Non-sequiturs, paradox and tautology, appear dissipative. Yet they are highly productive in reticular and fractal ways. Suffice it to look at the philosophical tautology of Parmenides's kind, which suggests that being is; at the practice of the koan, which collapses dualistic thinking by way of incompatible propositions, such as the Eastern hill keeps running on the water; at logical paradoxes in which the operative logic is sabotaged by its own means, as in Hempel's paradox; at absurdist dramatic texts in which protagonists record empty time in order to mark the emptiness of the time they are recording, as in Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape; or at paradoxical games like Maciunas's Prepared Table Tennis played with paddles that have huge holes in them. In all of these examples, the existence-apprehending processes occur via unexpected itineraries, in vacant but nevertheless enunciative codes, in seemingly futile, yet calibrating performances, and in a temporality that is the cumulative time's other. They catapult the mind into the realm of the extra-linguistic, the para-logical and the meta-experiential, or they transfigure it through a series of reticular iterations.

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