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- catalog abstract ""Drawing extensively upon recent developments in post-phenomenological philosophy, especially 'the textual turn' exemplified by Paul Ricoeur, Jacques Derrida and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, this book explores the role that textual narratives have in the possibility of reasonably affirming the intelligibility of the world. Shorthouse reveals how textual narratives can play a primary role in affirming rational meaning in a continuing hermeneutical process." "Offering a radical new approach to metaphysics, Shorthouse demonstrates that rational meaning is ontologically grounded in terms of a transcendental viewpoint or perspective. It is this grounding which transcends the language and the self in a hermeneutical movement towards the affirmation of rational meaning. Revealing that the critical characteristic of reading narrative is rhythm, Shorthouse explains how each narrative has a rhythmic structure, or prose rhythm, in relation to its semantic and figurative characteristics, activity and mood. Two key questions are explored: what kind of rational unity may be affirmed which does not close or suspend reflection? and what kind of linguistic mediation may generate an extralinguistic, or transcendental element in establishing an ontological grounding for this affirmation? The response to both these questions is presented in terms of textual sonority, where Shorthouse draws upon, and develops, Maurice Merleau-Ponty's notion of sonorous being."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12476534.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""Drawing extensively upon recent developments in post-phenomenological philosophy, especially 'the textual turn' exemplified by Paul Ricoeur, Jacques Derrida and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, this book explores the role that textual narratives have in the possibility of reasonably affirming the intelligibility of the world. Shorthouse reveals how textual narratives can play a primary role in affirming rational meaning in a continuing hermeneutical process."".
- catalog description ""Offering a radical new approach to metaphysics, Shorthouse demonstrates that rational meaning is ontologically grounded in terms of a transcendental viewpoint or perspective. It is this grounding which transcends the language and the self in a hermeneutical movement towards the affirmation of rational meaning. Revealing that the critical characteristic of reading narrative is rhythm, Shorthouse explains how each narrative has a rhythmic structure, or prose rhythm, in relation to its semantic and figurative characteristics, activity and mood.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-151) and index.".
- catalog description "The Question of Presence -- Presence and Metaphor -- Metaphor and Narrative -- Prose Rhythm: the Mediation of Sonorous Being -- The Primordial Dialectic and Temporal Perspective -- Self and Other -- The Creative Imagination -- Reasonable Hope -- A New Metaphysics.".
- catalog description "Two key questions are explored: what kind of rational unity may be affirmed which does not close or suspend reflection? and what kind of linguistic mediation may generate an extralinguistic, or transcendental element in establishing an ontological grounding for this affirmation? The response to both these questions is presented in terms of textual sonority, where Shorthouse draws upon, and develops, Maurice Merleau-Ponty's notion of sonorous being."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "vii, 161 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Textual narratives and a new metaphysics.".
- catalog identifier "075461610X".
- catalog isFormatOf "Textual narratives and a new metaphysics.".
- catalog isPartOf "Ashgate new critical thinking in philosophy".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate,".
- catalog relation "Textual narratives and a new metaphysics.".
- catalog subject "110 21".
- catalog subject "BD111 .S53 2002".
- catalog subject "Metaphysics.".
- catalog subject "Narration (Rhetoric)".
- catalog subject "Rhetoric Philosophy.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Question of Presence -- Presence and Metaphor -- Metaphor and Narrative -- Prose Rhythm: the Mediation of Sonorous Being -- The Primordial Dialectic and Temporal Perspective -- Self and Other -- The Creative Imagination -- Reasonable Hope -- A New Metaphysics.".
- catalog title "Textual narratives and a new metaphysics / Raymond T. Shorthouse.".
- catalog type "text".