Finding a Replacement for the Soul: Mind and Meaning in Literature and Philosophy

Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Note on Abbreviations......Page 17
Introduction: What Are We When We Are Not?......Page 18
Part I: The Surface of Language and the Absence of Meaning......Page 42
1. From Soul-Making to Person-Making......Page 44
2. The Logical Form of Fiction......Page 67
3. The Emptiness of Literary Interpretation......Page 97
4. To Be But Not To Mean......Page 118
5. How Do Oracles Mean?......Page 138
Part II: Senses and Nonsenses: Joyce’s Finnegans Wake and Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations......Page 160
6. A Twitterlitter of Nonsense: Askesis at Finnegans Wake......Page 162
7. The Analogy between Persons and Words......Page 185
8. “The Human Body Is the Best Picture of the Human Soul”......Page 209
9. The Senses of Time......Page 233
10. Being Something and Meaning Something......Page 255
Bibliography......Page 278
Acknowledgments......Page 286
Index......Page 288