Metanoia: A Speculative Ontology of Language, Thinking, and the Brain

Fusing speculative realism, analytical and linguistic philosophy this book theorises the fundamental impact the experience of reading has on us. In reading, language provides us with a world and meaning becomes perceptible. We can connect with another subjectivity, another place, another time. At its most extreme, reading changes our understanding of the world around us. Metanoia- meaning literally a change of mind or a conversion-refers to this kind of new way of seeing. To see the world in a new light is to accept that our thinking has been irrevocably transformed. How is that possible? And is it merely an intellectual process without any impact on the world outside our brains? Innovatively tackling these questions, this book mobilizes discussions from linguistics, literary theory, philosophy of language, and cognitive science. It re-articulates linguistic consciousness by underlining the poetic, creative moment of language and sheds light on the ability of language to transform not only our thinking but the world around us as well.

Politics & Social Sciences

Avanessian, Armen

Hennig, Anke

Philosophy

Bloomsbury Academic

Fusing speculative realism, analytical and linguistic philosophy this book theorises the fundamental impact the experience of reading has on us. In reading, language provides us with a world and meaning becomes perceptible. We can connect with another subjectivity, another place, another time. At its most extreme, reading changes our understanding of the world around us. Metanoia- meaning literally a change of mind or a conversion-refers to this kind of new way of seeing. To see the world in a new light is to accept that our thinking has been irrevocably transformed. How is that possible? And is it merely an intellectual process without any impact on the world outside our brains? 
Innovatively tackling these questions, this book mobilizes discussions from linguistics, literary theory, philosophy of language, and cognitive science. It re-articulates linguistic consciousness by underlining the poetic, creative moment of language and sheds light on the ability of language to transform not only our thinking but the world around us as well.

The invention of the present-tense novel is a literary event whose importance is on par with the discovery of perspective in painting. From the first novels shaped by interior monologues and the use of the present tense in the tradition of modernism, the present tense has, over the course of its century-long evolution, changed the conditions of fictional narration, along with our conceptions of time in a philosophical and linguistic framework. Indeed, to understand the work of an increasing number of contemporary writers – J.M. Coetzee, Tom McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, to name only a few – it is necessary to both understand the distinct linguistic and literary qualities of the present tense as well as its historical transformation into a genuine tense of contemporary storytelling.
For the first time in literary scholarship, Present Tense: A Poetics offers an account of a profound development in 20th- and 21st-century fiction.

Present Tense: A Poetics

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Erzieher: Prüfungswissen Erzieherin und Erzieher. Schülerbuch: Mit komplexen Beispielaufgaben

Weber, Thomas

Petermann, Franz

Stadler, Stefanie

Albrecht, Brit

Baum, Susanne

Bender, Saskia

Braun, Daniela

Braunecker, Ingerose

Dieckerhoff, Katy

Dietrich, Cornelie

Dorrance, Carmen

Franke, Pia Theresia

Gawlitzek, Ira

Greiner, Tobias

Hartleb-Kiuncke, Stephanie

Herm, Sabine

Herrlich, Martin

Hirler, Sabine

Hocke, Norbert

Hugoth, Matthias

Jacobi-Wanke, Heike

Janssen, Rolf

Knauf, Helen

Knauf, Tassilo

Knisel-Scheuring, Gerlinde

Koch, Andreas

Koglin, Ute

Krause, Christina

Liebscher-Schebiella, P.

Liersch, Christiane

Löbsin, Annika

Martic, Edigna

Noack, Winfried

Nolting, Albrecht

Ocak, Sibel

Pausewang, Freya

Pfeffer, Simone

Rehberg, Marissa

Remmele, Andrea

Rohde, Katrin

Roth, Xenia

Rott-König, Corina

Ruff, Amelie

Scharringhausen, Ruth

Schulze, Susan-Barbara

Schöffel, Gregor

Seidel, Wolf

Spaerke, Tatjana

Strack-Rathke, Dorothea

Taprogge-Essaida, Mirjam

Vogelsberger, Manfred

Zimmer, Renate

Cornelsen Verlag GmbH

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