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Wisdom & Metaphor

Hardcover • 2017 • 1. edition

Wisdom & Metaphor

By Jan Zwicky

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In the foreword to Wisdom & Metaphor, Jan Zwicky observes that "those who think metaphorically are enabled to think truly, because the shape of their thinking echoes the shape of the world." Wisdom & Metaphor explores the ways we come to understand the world through analogical structures, and the relation of this form of knowing to conventional epistemology and ontology. Zwicky uses the nature of the book itself, with its facing pages, to create resonant structures of aphorism and quotation whic...Show more

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9781550595659

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Brush Education Inc

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2017

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1

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Wisdom & Metaphor

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Hardcover

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