Items related to The Ways of Naysaying: No, Not, Nothing, and Nonbeing
No, that diminutive but independent vocable, begins its great role early in human life and never loses it. For not only can it head a negative sentence, announcing its judgement, or answer a question, implying its negated content, it can, and mostly does, in the beginning of speech, express an assertion of the resistant will--sometimes just that and nothing more. The adult antiphony to the toddler's incessant "no" is another "no", that of preventive command, and the great commandments of later life continue to be prohibitions: Nine of the Ten Commandments are in the negative. Eva Brann explores nothingness in the third book of her trilogy, which has treated imagination, time and now naysaying. If we want to understand something of imagination, memory and time, she argues, we must mount an inquiry into what it means to say something is not what it claims to be or is not there or is nonexistent or is affected by Nonbeing.
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About the Author:
Eva Brann teaches at St. John's College, Maryland.
Review:
Brann's account of the negative is a useful and worthwhile addition to the philosophical shelves, and it is to be hoped that it inspires more work on the issue. (Philosophy In Review)
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- PublisherRowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0742512290
- ISBN 13 9780742512290
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages249
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