scholarly journals Review of Yannis Hamilakis's Archaeology and the Senses: Human Experience, Memory, and Affect; Alfredo Gonzàles-Ruibal (ed), Reclaiming Archaeology: Beyond the Tropes of Modernity

HISTOREIN ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitris Plantzos
Keyword(s):  
Human Experience ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
The Senses

Review of Yannis Hamilakis, <em>Archaeology and the Senses: Human Experience, Memory, and Affect</em>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 255 pp.

Wallace Stevens' “Visibility of Thought”

PMLA ◽  
1962 ◽  
Vol 77 (4-Part1) ◽  
pp. 482-498
Author(s):  
Joseph N. Riddel
Keyword(s):  
Human Experience ◽  
Wallace Stevens ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Romantic Poet ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
The Senses ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Single Power

Human experience, according to Santayana, may be described as a conflict between the spirit and the imperfections which distract it from the pure and ideal toward which it aspires. And yet, to complete the paradox, there is no spirit without these imperfections, the matrix of flesh and world, space and time, which contains it. This is as much as anything a poet's dramatic vision: it is Yeats's with his passion to preserve the senses in an eternity of time, and it is Wallace Stevens' with his more realistic search for a balance between the antinomies of self and world. For Stevens, the imagination is the single power that can effect the vital unity, in life or in poetry: it alone can provide the aesthetic economy of experience so urgent for the modern romantic sensibility. Stevens is a romantic, or better, a neo-romantic poet who has gone to school to the French Symbolists and post-Symbolists only to conclude that the ends available to the artist are not metaphysical but aesthetic, and thus human. The romantic poet necessarily lives in two worlds: that of his sensual experience and that of his imaginative vision. In those moments when he manages to blend the two, he achieves not only a poem but that singular experience of “truth” from which he draws his spiritual sanctions. And if God is absent from his universe, as he is from Stevens', the moments of reconciliation become increasingly problematical but no less pressing.

scholarly journals Consciousness and Perception: The Point of Experience and the Meaning of the World We Inhabit

1969 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sérgio Basbaum Roclaw
Keyword(s):  
Conscious Experience ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Anthropology Of The Senses ◽  
As If

I suggest that consciousness may be culturally shaped, and thus it may be a romanticism of science to attempt explaining conscious experiences as if there could be one and only general abstraction of the whole human living conscious experience ? in spite of history, culture, language, etc. My starting point is perception ? its relation to conscious experience and, most of all, the meaning with which, through the mediation of perceptual processes, the world presents itself to each of us. I figure it out mainly by a combination of three different approaches to human experience: i) Maurice Merleau- Ponty´s works on perception; ii) Constance Classen and David Howes' Anthropology of the senses; iii) Vilém Flusser’s hermeneutical conception of language as reality.

scholarly journals Obserwacja i trwanie – O liryczności wierszy ks. Janusza St. Pasierba

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Bałdyga
Keyword(s):  
Human Experience ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Salvation History ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Transcendent Reality ◽  
The Senses

Observation and endurance: on lyricism in Fr. Janusz St. Pasierb’s poemsLimiting Fr. Janusz Stanisław Pasierb’s poetry exclusively to references to the Bible and the salvation history restricts understanding of the phenomenon of his poetry. Noticing the dialogicality of the speaking subject allows for grasping the most relevant in his poetry – experience accessible to the senses is moved to a higher level. The poet accurately and with minute precision notes down what is available to the senses; also, being aware of entanglement in time and space of human experience, he incorporates into his poetry a small surplus – he rips the experience from the horizontally oriented world and immerses it in transcendent reality. Observation and endurance are pillars of thinking about lyricism; Pasierb’s poems show how the prospect of eternity consolidates the value of a single experience.

scholarly journals Turning back to experience in Cognitive Linguistics via phenomenology

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 559-572 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan Zlatev
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Third Person ◽  
The Individual

AbstractCognitive Linguistics began as an apotheosis of lived experience, but has over the years diversified into many different stands, interpreting the notion of “experience” and along with it the notion of “cognition” in conflicting ways: individual or social, prelinguistic or linguistic, unconscious or conscious? These issues are not only philosophical as they hold crucial implications for methodology. Here, I propose that most of them can be resolved with the help of phenomenology, “the study of human experience and of the ways things present themselves to us in and through such experience” (Sokolowski 2000. Introduction to phenomenology. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2). Cogent syntheses are proposed to the individual/social and prelinguistic/linguistic debates, showing that scholars like Langacker, Talmy and Itkonen have focused on complementary aspects of implicitly phenomenological investigations. Third-person, “objective” methods are necessary for extending the scope of such investigations, but epistemologically secondary. Thus, the focus of Cognitive Linguistics can be brought back to experience, albeit in a more mature manner than 30 years ago.

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