The Experience of Meaning

by Jan Zwicky

Book Overview

The aim of this book is a recovery of interest in the experience of meaning. Jan Zwicky defends the claim that we experience meaning in the apprehension of wholes and their internal structural relations, providing examples of such insight in mathematics and physics, literature, music, and Plato's ancient theory of forms. Taken together, these essays constitute a powerful indictment of the aggressive reductionism and the reliance on calculative modes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773557431
• ISBN13: 9780773557437
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 4.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"