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Tom Grimwood

Shock of the Same

An Anti-Philosophy of Clichés. Sprachen: Englisch. 23,5 cm / 15,7 cm / 1,8 cm ( B/H/T )
EAN 9781786614001

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230 Seiten
Juni 2021
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

This book is the first examination of the cliché as a philosophical concept. Challenging the idea that clichés are lazy or spurious opposites to genuine thinking, it instead locates them as a dynamic and contestable boundary between ‘thought’ and ‘non-thought’.

Tom Grimwood

Prologue CHAPTER ONE: THE MEANING OF CLICHÉS CHAPTER TWO: DEAD SPACES: ARENDT, ORWELL AND THE MORBIDITY OF POLITICAL CLICHÉS CHAPTER THREE: CYNICAL MODERNITY FROM NIETZSCHE TO SLOTERDIJK CHAPTER FOUR: SAYING IT WITH FLOWERS: JEAN PAULHAN'S INAPPROPRIATE METAPHORS CHAPTER FIVE: THE SHOCK OF THE SAME: BORIS GROYS AND THE METANOIA OF THE CLICHÉ CHAPTER SIX: ON THE PROBLEM OF SAYING SOMETHING NEW: KIERKEGAARD'S ARCHETYPES, MCLUHAN'S CLICHÉS CHAPTER SEVEN: STOCK IMAGES OF MADNESS: RHETORIC AND CLICHÉ IN VIDEO GAMES CHAPTER EIGHT: "THIS WILL ALL MAKE SENSE WHEN I AM OLDER": REBOOTING CLICHÉS CHAPTER NINE: GATEKEEPING THE "NOISE": EXPERTISE, OPEN-MINDEDNESS AND PUBLIC DEBATE Bibliography