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How Non-being Haunts Being reveals how the human world is not
reducible to "what is." Human life is an open expanse of "what was"
and "what will be," "what might be" and "what should be." It is a
world of desires, dreams, fictions, historical figures, planned
events, spatial and temporal distances, in a word, absent presences
and present absences. Corey Anton draws upon and integrates
thinkers such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Henri Bergson, Kenneth Burke,
Terrence Deacon, Lynn Margulis, R. D. Laing, Gregory Bateson,
Douglas Harding, and E. M. Cioran. He discloses the moral
possibilities liberated through death acceptance by showing how
living beings, who are of space not merely in it, are fundamentally
on loan to themselves. A heady multidisciplinary work, How
Non-being Haunts Being explores how absence, incompleteness, and
negation saturate life, language, thought, and culture. It details
how meaning and moral agency depend upon forms of non-being, and it
argues that death acceptance in no way inevitably slides into
nihilism. Thoroughgoing death acceptance, in fact, opens
opportunities for deeper levels of self-understanding and for
greater compassion regarding our common fate. Sure to provoke
thought and to stimulate much conversation, it offers countless
insights into the human condition.
How Non-being Haunts Being reveals how the human world is not
reducible to "what is." Human life is an open expanse of "what was"
and "what will be," "what might be" and "what should be." It is a
world of desires, dreams, fictions, historical figures, planned
events, spatial and temporal distances, in a word, absent presences
and present absences. Corey Anton draws upon and integrates
thinkers such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Henri Bergson, Kenneth Burke,
Terrence Deacon, Lynn Margulis, R. D. Laing, Gregory Bateson,
Douglas Harding, and E. M. Cioran. He discloses the moral
possibilities liberated through death acceptance by showing how
living beings, who are of space not merely in it, are fundamentally
on loan to themselves. A heady multidisciplinary work, How
Non-being Haunts Being explores how absence, incompleteness, and
negation saturate life, language, thought, and culture. It details
how meaning and moral agency depend upon forms of non-being, and it
argues that death acceptance in no way inevitably slides into
nihilism. Thoroughgoing death acceptance, in fact, opens
opportunities for deeper levels of self-understanding and for
greater compassion regarding our common fate. Sure to provoke
thought and to stimulate much conversation, it offers countless
insights into the human condition.
This book brings together a number of prominent scholars to explore
a relatively under-studied area of Marshall McLuhan's thought: his
idea of formal cause and the role that formal cause plays in the
emergence of new technologies and in structuring societal
relations. Aiming to open a new way of understanding McLuhan's
thought in this area, and to provide methodological grounding for
future media ecology research, the book runs the gamut, from
contributions that directly support McLuhan's arguments to those
that see in them the germs of future developments in emergent
dynamics and complexity theory.
"In this volume, Corey Anton and Lance Strate have carefully
crafted a collection of comparisons of Korzybski's thoughts to
other key philosophers and their ideas. Media, semiotics,
imagination, rational thought, cultural studies, and cyberculture
are only a sample of the many stimulating topics that come to life
in this book...With freshness and vision, this edited collection
takes us on a thought-provoking journey connecting us to the
essence of Korzybski's contribution. I found it to be a thoroughly
enjoyable read."
-Karen Lollar Ph.D.
Chair, Communication Arts and Sciences Metropolitan State
University of Denver
Author of The Talk Within: Its Central Role in Communication (2012)
"The collection of essays contained within this book represent a
gallant and exquisite attempt to backtrack, as well as to sidetrack
and track ahead, and show how Alfred Korzybski's enterprise is
indeed aligned not only with various strains and traditions in
academic thought and scholarship, but with the work of a host of
significant theorists from across the disciplines. As such Corey
Anton, Lance Strate, and their contributors have done a great
service to Korzybski's legacy, and to the continuation and
expansion of general semantics as both an applied and a theoretical
system. They have positioned Korzybski and his work as a locus,
rather than an outlier."
-Thom Gencarelli, Manhattan College
"Corey Anton and Lance Strate have assembled a 'wild variety' of 16
erudite essays demonstrating the past, present and continuing
influence and relevance of Korzybskian general semantics. Academic
specialists from diverse fields explore the "connections,
intersections, and divergences" between general semantics and
assorted topics ranging from phenomenology to psychotherapy to
philosophy; from Heinlein to Hayakawa to Heidegger; from matters of
time and temporality to the nature of human happiness. "Korzybski
And ..." is a collection not to be missed, an example of
time-binding at its finest."
-Jacqueline Rudig, IGS Past Vice-President
In this highly readable and well-arranged compilation-including his
much-celebrated "The Practice of Reading Good Books" and
award-winning "Playing with Bateson"-Corey Anton brings together
some of his most accessible and well-received essays. The
collection, in addition to advancing and integrating the fields of
media ecology and general semantics, will be of great interest to
people who are concerned over the changing role of reading and
literacy in contemporary life. A stimulating and provocative book
having wide relevance to scholars and students in the areas of
semiotics, rhetorical theory, orality/literacy studies, philosophy
of communication, pedagogical theory, and communication theory,
Communication Uncovered offers countless insights and broad-based
orientations regarding the nature of language, linguistic and
communicative habits, communication technologies, and symbolic
practices more generally. This is a "must have" resource for anyone
interested in multidisciplinary communication theory.
In this highly readable and well-arranged compilation-including his
much-celebrated "The Practice of Reading Good Books" and
award-winning "Playing with Bateson"-Corey Anton brings together
some of his most accessible and well-received essays. The
collection, in addition to advancing and integrating the fields of
media ecology and general semantics, will be of great interest to
people who are concerned over the changing role of reading and
literacy in contemporary life. A stimulating and provocative book
having wide relevance to scholars and students in the areas of
semiotics, rhetorical theory, orality/literacy studies, philosophy
of communication, pedagogical theory, and communication theory,
Communication Uncovered offers countless insights and broad-based
orientations regarding the nature of language, linguistic and
communicative habits, communication technologies, and symbolic
practices more generally. This is a "must have" resource for anyone
interested in multidisciplinary communication theory.
"Sources of Significance "confronts consumer capitalism and
religious fundamentalism as symptoms of death denial and
degenerated cultural heroisms. Advancing and synthesizing the ideas
of Ernest Becker, Kenneth Burke, Hans Jonas, Erving Goffman,
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, and Epictetus, this multidisciplinary
work offers a sustained response and corrective. It outlines
heroisms worth wanting and reveals the forms of gratitude, courage,
and purpose that emerge as people come to terms with the meaning of
mortality. Corey Anton opens a contemporary dialogue spanning
theism, atheism, agnosticism, and spiritualist humanism by
re-examining basic topics such as language, self-esteem, ambiguity,
guilt, ritual, sacrifice, and transcendence. Acknowledging the
growing need for theologies that are compatible with modern
science, Anton shows how today's consumerist lifestyles distort and
trivialize the need for self-worth, and he argues that each person
faces the genuinely heroic tasks of contributing to the world's
beauty, harmony, and resources; of forgiving the cosmos for
self-conscious finitude; and of gratefully accepting the ambiguity
of life's gifts.
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