Screen LibraryReligion and Humor as Emancipating Provinces of Meaning /
This book illustrates how non-pragmatic finite provinces of meaning emancipate one from pragmatic everyday pressures. Barber portrays everyday life originally, as including the interplay between intrinsic and imposed relevances, the unavoidable pursuit of pragmatic mastery, and the resulting tension...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Contributions To Phenomenology, In Cooperation with The Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology,
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62190-6 |
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This book illustrates how non-pragmatic finite provinces of meaning emancipate one from pragmatic everyday pressures. Barber portrays everyday life originally, as including the interplay between intrinsic and imposed relevances, the unavoidable pursuit of pragmatic mastery, and the resulting tensions non-pragmatic provinces can relieve. But individuals and groups also inevitably resort to meta-level strategies of hyper-mastery to protect set ways of satisfying lower-level relevances strategies that easily augment individual anxiety and social pathologies. After creatively interpreting the Sc |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (XV, 191 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783319621906 |
| Index Number: | B829 |
| CLC: | B089 |
| Contents: | Chapter 1. Pragmatic Everyday Life -- Chapter 2. Communication as Paramount: Schutz s Developing Understanding of Multiple Realities -- Chapter 3. Multiple Realities and Other Interruptions of Pragmatic Everyday Life: A Dialectic -- Chapter 4. The Finite Province of Religious Meaning: Preliminary Remarks, Tension of Consciousness, Epoch -- Chapter 5. The Finite Province of Religious Meaning: Form of Spontaneity, Experience of Self, Sociality, and Time-Perspective -- Chapter 6. Making Interracial Humor Together -- Chapter 7. The Finite Province of Humorous Meaning: Preliminary Clarifications, |