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

Preface

Introduction: Major Terms, Their Classification, and Their Relation to the Book's Objective

1. The Problem of Analogous Forms

2. Natural Logic, Categories, and the Individual

3. Shift to Individual Categories, Dynamics, and a Psychological Look at Identity

4. Form Versus Function

5. What Is the Difference Between the Logic Governing a Figure of Speech and the Logic That Is Immature or Unconscious?

6. What Are the Role and Function of the Self Vis-à-vis Consciousness?

7. Development in the Logic from Immature to Mature Modes

8. Pathological and Defensive Logical Forms

9. The "I," Identity, and the Part-Whole Resolutions

10. The "I," Entropy, and the Trope

Notes

References

Acknowledgments

Index

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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