10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NONSENSUOUS»
Discover the use of
nonsensuous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
nonsensuous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Walter Benjamin: Appropriations
In the 1933 "On the Mimetic Faculty" Benjamin devises the notion of
nonsensuous similarity, which, if one of his most hermetic concepts, is concerned
with the traces left by divine language in the postlapsar- ian world. As Wolin
writes, "the ...
2
The Oxford Handbook of Virtuality
Neither the future, nor the past thickening the present for it, is sensuous. The
sensuous elements in play envelop the nonsensuous past and future in the
materiality of their impinging on the body. They are the leading edge of the
forming event, ...
Children's play, sympathetic magic and astrology are all instances of what
Benjamin calls 'nonsensuous similarity'. This term describes similarities not just
between things that materially resemble one another but between the animate
and ...
4
Felt Meanings of the World: A Metaphysics of Feeling
There is no distinction here between neutral and sensuous features of the sunset
(its colors) and a nonsensuous value-property of beauty. If we are to speak of a
nonsen- suous beauty in connection with the sunset, we must refer to the ...
5
Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of ...
In the 1933 "On the Mimetic Faculty" Benjamin devises the notion of
nonsensuous similarity, which, if one of his most hermetic concepts, is concerned
with the traces left by divine language in the postlapsarian world. As Wolin writes,
"the ...
6
Mimesis: Culture, Art, Society
21. Nonsensuous. Similarity. On the Linguistic Anthropology of Benjamin Walter
Benjamin, like few other writers in this century, understood the anthropological
significance of mimesis. It is central to the relation between the individual and the
...
Gunter Gebauer, Christoph Wulf, 1995
7
Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts
Language is a labor-saving machine for accelerating and intensifying life activity,
thought-skipping the “tardy consecutions” of sensuous perceptions. Language is
a thought-machine for adding nonsensuous degrees of freedom to activity.
8
God Without the Supernatural: A Defense of Scientific Theism
For we may distinguish between the sensuous beauty of things, which is perhaps
species- relative, and the nonsensuous ordered beauty that any intellectual
being could appreciate. The sensuous beauty of this universe can be understood
as ...
9
A Christian Natural Theology: Based on the Thought of Alfred ...
Hence we may speak quite literally of a nonsensuous perception of meanings. If
God “speaks” to a person, this can be understood according to the same principle
of the immediate impression of meanings upon the human occasion, although ...
10
Beyond the Blogosphere: Information and Its Children
81 Benjamin writes of two types of similarity, one of appearance (sensuous) and
one of correspondence (nonsensuous), as that between the written word and the
spoken word. A transcription of a speech, then, would be a nonsensuous copy.
Aaron J. Barlow, Robert Leston, 2012
