Self, Logic, and Figurative Thinking

Harwood Fisher

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December, 2008
Cloth, 368 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14504-6
$45.00 / £31.00

"It is as if Harwood Fisher has found in the trope-concept relationship a way of mapping the construction and development of a self which remains (or can remain) open and flexible rather than reductive and conducive to pathology. Fisher has produced a book which, from a much more psychological than literary perspective, puts one in mind of Kenneth Burke at his best, as in, for example, A Grammar of Motives, as well as the great social thinkers, such as Erving Goffman." — Hayden White, Stanford University

"In an engaging tone, Harwood Fisher takes the reader on a journey through difficult and perilous concepts—awareness, consciousness, perception—to engage the idea of the self as the original locus of consciousness, without falling, however, into the traps of solipsism and self-contention. He offers an idea of the self which, although it acknowledges the role of the non-I and the other, goes beyond external conditioning. It is a self that grows out of fields of tension, in a dialectic manner." — Luis Radford, Laurentian University

Related Subjects

• Aesthetics
• Linguistics
• Literary Criticism and Theory
• Neuroscience & Psychology

About the Author

Harwood Fisher is professor emeritus, City College of the City University of New York. His writing focuses on how the individual originates ideas and the self's subjective experiences as a dynamic logic of thinking. His books include Language and Logic in Personality and Society and The Subjective Self: A Portrait Within Logical Space.

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