Poetry and Mind: Tractatus Poetico-Philosophicus

by Laurent Dubreuil

Book Overview

"What one cannot compute, one must poetize." So concludes this remarkable sequence of propositions on the centrality of poetry for what we call cognition. Developed through brief, lucid, and eloquent logical elaborations that are punctuated by incisive readings of a range of poems--Western and non-Western, low culture and high--Poetry and Mind offers to theorists and practitioners of literature, together with logicians and cognitive scientists,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823279642
• ISBN13: 9780823279647
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"