Sensing Corporeally ― Toward a Posthuman Understanding

Preferring organic "topological knowing" to postmodernism's fragmented "surface" knowing, Merrell (foreign languages and literatures, Purdue U.) presents an intriguing, multidisciplinary case for viewing human sensation and cognition in terms of qualitative signs and analogical reasoning rather than quantitative and digital reasoning. Drawing on conceptions of bodymind signs and consciousness by philosopher Charles Peirce, neurologists Antonio Demasio and Oliver Sacks, and novelist Jorge Luis Borges, the author emphasizes a re-enchantment with the experiential world. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Floyd Merrell is a Professor of Theory, Semiotics, Culture, and Latin American Literature in the Department of Foreign Language and Literature at Purdue University.