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The Ways of Naysaying - No, Not, Nothing, and Nonbeing (Hardcover)
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The Ways of Naysaying - No, Not, Nothing, and Nonbeing (Hardcover)
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No, that diminutive but independent vocable, begins its great role
early in human life and never loses it. For not only can it head a
negative sentence, announcing its judgement, or answer a question,
implying its negated content, it can, and mostly does, in the
beginning of speech, express an assertion of the resistant will
sometimes just that and nothing more. The adult antiphony to the
toddler's incessant no is another no, that of preventive command,
and the great commandments of later life continue to be
prohibitions: Nine of the Ten Commandments are in the negative. Eva
Brann explores nothingness in the third book of her trilogy, which
has treated imagination, time and now naysaying. If we want to
understand something of imagination, memory and time, she argues,
we must mount an inquiry into what it means to say something is not
what it claims to be or is not there or is nonexistent or is
affected by Nonbeing.
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