{"product_id":"9780674028593","title":"Finding a Replacement for the Soul","description":"\u003cp\u003e Approaching the study of literature as a unique form of the philosophy of language and mind--as a study of how we produce nonsense and imagine it as sense--this is a book about our human ways of making and losing meaning. Brett Bourbon asserts that our complex and variable relation with language defines a domain of meaning and being that is misconstrued and missed in philosophy, in literary studies, and in our ordinary understanding of what we are and how things make sense. Accordingly, his book seeks to demonstrate how the study of literature gives us the means to understand this relationship. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The book itself is framed by the literary and philosophical challenges presented by Joyce's \u003ci\u003eFinnegan's Wake\u003c\/i\u003e and Wittgenstein's \u003ci\u003ePhilosophical Investigations\u003c\/i\u003e. With reference to these books and the problems of interpretation and meaning that they pose, Bourbon makes a case for the fundamental philosophical character of the study of literature, and for its dependence on theories of meaning disguised as theories of mind. Within this context, he provides original accounts of what sentences, fictions, non-fictions, and poems are; produces a new account of the logical form of fiction and of the limits of interpretation that follow from it; and delineates a new and fruitful domain of inquiry in which literature, philosophy, and science intersect. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Contents: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Note on Abbreviations \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Introduction: What Are We When We Are Not? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart I The Surface of Language and the Absence of Meaning\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. From Soul-Making to Person-Making\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Logical Form of Fiction\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Emptiness of Literary Interpretation\u003cbr\u003e 4. To Be But Not To Mean\u003cbr\u003e 5. How Do Oracles Mean? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart II Senses and Nonsenses: Joyce's \u003ci\u003eFinnegans Wake\u003c\/i\u003e and Wittgenstein's \u003ci\u003ePhilosophical Investigations\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. A Twitterlitter of Nonsense: \u003ci\u003eAskesis at Finnegans Wake\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Analogy between Persons and Words\u003cbr\u003e 8. \"The Human Body Is the Best Picture of the Human Soul\"\u003cbr\u003e 9. The Senses of Time\u003cbr\u003e 10. Being Something and Meaning Something\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is an adventurous and unusual book. Bourbon moves back and forth between literary and philosophical contexts with ease, showing in multifarious ways how the one can, often in unexpected ways, illuminate the other. Throughout these wide-ranging explorations Bourbon uncovers a good deal about both the nature of literary meaning and our distinctive -- if tellingly irreducible -- relations to literary texts.\u003cbr\u003e--Garry L. Hagberg, author of \u003ci\u003eArt as Language: Wittgenstein, Meaning, and Aesthetic Theory\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMeaning and Interpretation: Wittgenstein, Henry James, and Literary Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47067378122992,"sku":"9780674028593","price":81.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780674028593_p0.jpg?v=1769845393","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780674028593","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}