Metaphysical Community: The Interplay of the Senses and the Intellect

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Synopsis
Starting with the post-structuralist idea that truth systems are lodged in discourse, and that discourse varies from society to society, Greg Urban seeks to discover the nature and extent of that variation.

His journey to an Amerindian society in which dreams are more prominent than everyday aspects of the sensible world leads him to radically reformulate one of the main problematics of Western thought: the relationship between our sensations of the world and the understandings we form of them.

Metaphysical Community proposes that this dichotomy comes from the interplay between two sides of discourse-its intelligible side as a carrier of meanings, and its sensible side as thing-in-the-world that must be replicated. This insight leads to the heart of the book-the exploration of the uneasy tension that binds experience and understanding, phenomena and noumena.

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1996

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ISBN-13:
9780292786868
Publisher:
University of Texas Press
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University of Texas Press
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Language:
English
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Categories:
Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts
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