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I Am an Impure Thinker by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, 1888-1973 is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1.) Farewell to Descartes -- 2.) The soul of William James -- 3.) Modern man's disintegration and the Egyptian Ka -- 4.) The four phases of speech -- 5.) The quadrilateral of human logic -- 6.) The twelve tones of the spirit -- 7.) Heraclitus to Parmenides -- 8.) Teaching too late, learning too early -- 9.) When the four Gospels were written -- 10.) Tribalism -- 11.) Polybius; or, The reproduction of government -- 12.) Immigration of the spirit -- 13.) Metanoia: to think anew -- * APPENDIX: A.) Diagrams of the Ka -- B.) Biography of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy -- C.) Bibliography: works of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy . . . . . . . . . . . . Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888-1973) was a sociologist and social philosopher who, along with his close friend Franz Rosenzweig, and Ferdinand Ebner and Martin Buber, was a major exponent of speech thinking or dialogicism. The central insight of speech thinking is that speech or language is not merely, or even primarily, a descriptive act, but a responsive and creative act, which is the basis of our social existence. The greater part of Rosenstock-Huessy's work was devoted to demonstrating how speech/language, through its unpredictable

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Author
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, 1888-1973
Publisher
Argo Books
Published
2001
Language
EN
ISBN
9780912148564
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Philosophy, Poetry, Anthropology

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