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"Heidegger's turn to poetry in the latter half of his career is well known, but his own verse has to date received relatively little attention. How can we understand Heideggerian poetics without a thorough reading of the poet's own verse? Thought-Poems offers a translation of GA81 of Heidegger's collected works, where the reader can read the German version alongside the English text. Musical, allusive, engaged deeply with humanity's primordial relationships, the Gedachtes or thought-poems here translated show Heidegger's language at its most beautiful, and open new ways to conceive of the relationship between language and being"--
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"This book presents three lectures on the "Science of Thought" delivered at the Royal Institution in London in 1887. The lectures are a natural outcome of that philosophical and historical study of language. The lectures consider (1) the simplicity of language; (2) the identity of language and thought (including a note on etymology of nomen); and (3) the simplicity of thought"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).
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"The impairment of thinking is one of the most striking features of the schizophrenic disorder. Ever since Kraepelin described it as a "disturbance of association, " it has been an object of much interest and speculation. Many conjectures have been made concerning the nature of the disturbance, its origin, and the part it plays in the general structure of the psychosis. Some authors deny that the impairment of thought processes is a specific and primary trait in schizophrenia and consider it as a manifestation either of the affective-volitional disorder or of a general change in psychological function. Others assume the existence of a specific defect in thinking and express different opinions in regard to the nature of this disturbance. Some stress the irrationality of schizophrenic thought processes, their deviation from the logical norms; the genetic approach sees in the disturbance a general regression to a lower level of thinking; the neurologically oriented investigators point out the aspects which bear resemblance to somatically determined defects, such as aphasia or agnosia. Although not all of these different interpretations are of necessity mutually exclusive, yet there is no general agreement on the subject. The problem of schizophrenic thinking, just as the larger problem of schizophrenia itself, is still a challenge to investigators. What are the ways and methods that could bring us a step closer to the understanding of the nature of schizophrenic thinking? We may obtain some suggestions about this point from a consideration of the inadequacies of the older approaches to the problem. They were based largely on clinical observation of not very systematic nature. The bulk of the material was provided by accidental verbal productions of the patient. Of necessity such observations were limited to the most conspicuous, spectacular phenomena, while less striking but possibly just as important signs passed unnoticed. The observed phenomena were often described in terms that had no definite relation to the general psychological theories concerning the function that was being studied. Finally the single symptoms were explored and considered by themselves, rather than in relation to the total clinical picture"--Book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).
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It is an old idea that thought and language are somehow intimately related and mutually dependent. This book examines the role of verbal activity in the growth of the structure of the human mind. The central thesis may be stated as followed: The processes and organization of communication are continuous with other physiological and social processes, and the evolving structure of intellectual activity (including the forms discovered by logical analysis) is a function of the total growth of life prior to and including the growth of verbal activity; the structure and processes of intellectual activity, at all stages, are capable of systematic investigation and genetic interpretation. After an empirical investigation and formulation of the growth of mental life, and especially of the organization of symbolic activity, an attempt will be made to interpret the significance of these findings for general philosophy, logic, social theory and education. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved).
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"This book is not designed to supersede other and more extended treatises on Philosophy, but to prepare the way for their greater usefulness. It is designed to draw attention to the study, at an earlier period, and increase the number of those who appreciate such investigations. The plan of the work embraces the three departments of the mind; the Intellect, the Sensibilities, and the Will. The writer has endeavored to explore, analyse, and arrange, in the most natural order, the principal phenomena of mind, and to bring them within as narrow limits as practicable"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved).