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Tuesday, November 18, 2014
The Materiality of Metaphor: On Words and Things
11:31 PM
History of Books
,
Metaphor
,
Sacred Texts
,
Senses
,
Words and Things
In this extract from his recent book,
A History of Religion in 5
½
Objects
,
S. Brent Plate
discusses the grounding of language and meaning, especially metaphor, in bodily experience.
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