Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations and Translations Introduction 1. The Irreducibility of Language: The History of Rhetoric in the Age of Typewriters 2. The Failures of Empiricism: Language, Science, and the Philosophical Tradition 3. What Is a Trope? The Discourse of Metaphor and the Language of the Body 4. The Nervous Systems of Modern Consciousness: Metaphor, Physiology, and Mind 5. Interpretation and Life: Outlines of an Anthropology of Knowledge Notes Select Bibliography 6 Index
Christian J. Emden is an assistant professor of German
studies at Rice University.
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