From chaos to catastrophe? : texts and the transitionality of the mind

From chaos to catastrophe? : texts and the transitionality of the mind / K. Ludwig Pfeiffer.

This book focuses on the tensions between processes of consciousness and their products like worldviews, theories, models of thought etc. Staying close to their technical meanings in chaos and catastrophe theory, chaotic processes are described in mainly neurobiological and evolutionary terms while...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pfeiffer, K. Ludwig (Karl Ludwig) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : Walter De Gruyter, [2018]
Series:Buchreihe der Anglia ; v. 59.
Subjects:
Cognition.
Neurosciences.
Evolutionary psychology.
Social psychology.
Civilization, Western.
cognition.
social psychology.
PSYCHOLOGY > Cognitive Psychology.
SCIENCE > Cognitive Science.
Civilization, Western
Cognition
Evolutionary psychology
Neurosciences
Social psychology
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I Consciousness studies: neurosciences and 'literature'
  • The transitionality of consciousness
  • Universalism vs. particularism
  • Patterns of consciousness, language, discourse
  • James, James and the structure of fluctuations
  • Neurobiology: intricacies and implications
  • Dramatic narratives
  • Transitionality and the obsession with form
  • Existential impressionism and cultural status: Dorothy Richardson (1873-1957)
  • An interlude, or, from Richardson to Richardson
  • Part II Consciousness and history: biographical 'novels' and their 'liberal'extensions
  • Biography on the rebound
  • Biographical patterns, models of consciousness and historical significance in Dickens
  • Diagnostic power and practical relevance: some further steps
  • The pseudo-freedom fo consciousness and its cost-benefit analysis in the twentieth century
  • The RAF, a twentieth-century reality shift, and a contemporary German 'novel'
  • The drama of 'liberalism'
  • What does enlightenment enlighten us about?
  • The paradox of liberty and authorty
  • Part III A case study: chaotic consciousness and catastrophic history, discordant evolution and political overreaction: Oswald and Nicholas Mosley
  • Catastrophe practice: frameworks and presuppositions-from individuality to scripts
  • Catastrophe practice: routines-individuality manufactured and medialized
  • Hopeful monsters: discordant evolution and steps towards mutation
  • Hysterical consciousness and the beginniings of institutional degeneration in autobiographical writings
  • The failure of rules and the unleashing of hysterical consciousness: Oswald Mosley and fascism
  • Tentative conclusions
  • Works Cited
  • Index.

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