The Poetics Of Sleep

Author : Simon Wortham
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441169628
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Sleep written by Simon Wortham and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To what extent does sleep constitute a limit for the philosophical imagination? Why does it recur throughout philosophy? What is at issue in the repeated relegation of sleep to the realm of physiological study (as in Kant, Freud and Bergson), in favour of promoting the critical investigation of dreams and dreaming as a key indicator of modernity? Does philosophy entail a certain repression of the poetics of sleep in all its conceptual impossibility? Through a series of engagements with key thinkers in modern European philosophy, this book rearticulates a poetics of sleep at the heart of some of its seminal texts. From the problematic yet instructive status of a Kantian discourse on sleep to the conceptual contradictions inherent in psychoanalytic thought and the rich possibilities of thinking 'sleep' in the writings of Bergson, Blanchot and Nancy, the book's aim is to dredge the remains of sleep - not to bring its secrets to the surface of waking life, but instead to draw closer to what falls under or away in thinking and writing 'sleep'.

Author : Simon Wortham
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441124764
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Sleep written by Simon Wortham and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To what extent does sleep constitute a limit for the philosophical imagination? Why does it recur throughout philosophy? What is at issue in the repeated relegation of sleep to the realm of physiological study (as in Kant, Freud and Bergson), in favour of promoting the critical investigation of dreams and dreaming as a key indicator of modernity? Does philosophy entail a certain repression of the poetics of sleep in all its conceptual impossibility? Through a series of engagements with key thinkers in modern European philosophy, this book rearticulates a poetics of sleep at the heart of some of its seminal texts. From the problematic yet instructive status of a Kantian discourse on sleep to the conceptual contradictions inherent in psychoanalytic thought and the rich possibilities of thinking 'sleep' in the writings of Bergson, Blanchot and Nancy, the book's aim is to dredge the remains of sleep - not to bring its secrets to the surface of waking life, but instead to draw closer to what falls under or away in thinking and writing 'sleep'.

Author : Sandra Huber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780889229105
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assembling the Morrow written by Sandra Huber and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though we spend a third of our lives asleep, the behaviour remains largely a mystery. Sandra Huber's first book, Assembling the Morrow: A Poetics of Sleep, assumes that any attempt to solve this mystery requires new modes of experimentation. What happens when the line of a Berger's wave (an electroencephalography recording of brainwaves in sleep) turns into a line of poetry, an act of focused consciousness? The earliest readings of the sleeping brain, captured by EEGs in the 1930s, revealed that sleep is as active and lively as its daytime counterpart, not simply a passive state that naturally ensues when wakefulness ceases. Sleep not only assimilates the day that's passed, but also looks forward, assembling what's to come. To engage this concept, Huber sculpts a long poem onto the neural oscillations of sleep, in order to explore what is beneath them both: the conscious organism, the writer, and the written. In the field of the poem, where sleep is traditionally a metaphor for death, the idea that to be awake is to be alive is put to the test in a new kind of writing that invites a new kind of being. Prefaced by a discussion on poetry, the science of sleep, and those who have sought a language of consciousness - from Hans Berger to Gertrude Stein - Assembling the Morrow proposes that entering the mystery of sleep requires a radical reframing of our biases on what it means to be conscious.

Author : Bill Hayes
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022656097X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sleep Demons written by Bill Hayes and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A lovely weave of memory and science, great characters and compassionate humor” from the author of Sweat: A History of Exercise (Anne Lamott). We often think of sleep as mere stasis, a pause button we press at the end of each day. Yet sleep is full of untold mysteries—eluding us when we seek it too fervently, throwing us into surreal dream worlds when we don’t, sometimes even possessing our bodies so that they walk and talk without our conscious volition. Delving into the mysteries of his own sleep patterns, Bill Hayes marvels, “I have come to see that sleep itself tells a story.” An acclaimed journalist and memoirist—and partner of the late neurologist Oliver Sacks—Hayes has been plagued by insomnia his entire life. The science and mythology of sleep and sleeplessness form the backbone to Hayes’s narrative of his personal battles with sleep and how they colored his waking life, as he threads stories of fugitive sleep through memories of growing up in the closet, coming out to his Irish Catholic family, watching his friends fall ill during the early years of the AIDS crisis in San Francisco, and finding a lover. An erudite blend of science and personal narrative, Sleep Demons offers a poignant introduction to the topics for which Hayes has since become famous, including art, eros, city life, the history of medical science, and queer identity. “This intimate and beautifully written book brings scientific research alive in a heartfelt and deeply personal narrative.” —The Guardian “Memoir, history, and science come together and apart again in a book that reads very much like a dream.” —Out magazine

Author : William C. Dement
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781495119460
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stanford Sleep Book written by William C. Dement and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book had its genesis in the need created by my involvement with undergraduate teaching starting in the Fall of 1970 when I was a resident fellow and taught a course on sleep for the students in my dormitory. The course began to attract other students and because of this I decided to offer a formal presentation in Winter Quarter 1971 and I have offered a course on sleep annually up until Winter Quarter 2003. Sleep and Dreams was not offered in 2004 or 2005 but due to high student demand, we resurrected the course for the Winter Quarter 2006. Around 1980, the various handouts developed into a quasi-textbook and by the middle of the 90s, the first Stanford Sleep Book was born. The current volume is the 5th edition"--Acknowledgements.

Author : Wayne Emerson Tidwell
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9780595609093
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Broken Sleep written by Wayne Emerson Tidwell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-04-28 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wayne E. Tidwell writes poetry from one of the deepest sometimes darkest places you've ever seen. A poetic journey, seen through the eyes of one of the most talented poets of our time. These poems really make you feel, and sometimes take you to a place so deep you never want to return. A little bit of everything, from sleep and dreams to family and alcoholism, these poems have it all. A must read for the poetry readers of the world. One Love.

Author : Ed Luker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781913642297
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Other Life written by Ed Luker and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ed Luker's Other Life is an acerbic and intelligent collection with heaps of personality. Luker's poems show an interest in the inner riddles of poetic form coupled with desperate attempts to navigate the insane demands of modern life, including £3 pound sausage rolls, yoga and the plains of Calabria. These complicated pressures push Luker into riotous protest. Other Life pushes against a certain shyness in contemporary poetry, replacing it with megalomaniac verve and sparkle.

Author : Jean-Luc Nancy
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823231194
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fall of Sleep written by Jean-Luc Nancy and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophers have largely ignored sleep, treating it as a useless negativity, mere repose for the body or at best a source for the production of unconscious signs out of the night of the soul. In an extraordinary theoretical investigation written with lyric intensity, The Fall of Sleep puts an end to this neglect by providing a deft yet rigorous philosophy of sleep. What does it mean to "fall" asleep? Might there exist something like a "reason" of sleep, a reason at work in its own form or modality, a modality of being in oneself, of return to oneself, without the waking "self" that distinguishes "I" from "you" and from the world? What reason might exist in that absence of ego, appearance, and intention, in an abandon thanks to which one is emptied out into a non-place shared by everyone? Sleep attests to something like an equality of all that exists in the rhythm of the world. With sleep, victory is constantly renewed over the fear of night, an a confidence that we will wake with the return of day, in a return to self, to us--though to a self, an us, that is each day different, unforeseen, without any warning given in advance. To seek anew the meaning stirring in the supposed loss of meaning, of consciousness, and of control that occurs in sleep is not to reclaim some meaning already familiar in philosophy, religion, progressivism, or any other -ism. It is instead to open anew a source that is not the source of a meaning but that makes up the nature proper to meaning, its truth: opening, gushing forth, infinity. This beautiful, profound meditation on sleep is a unique work in the history of phenomenology--a lyrical phenomenology of what can have no phenomenology, since sleep shows itself to the waking observer, the subject of phenomenology, only as disappearance and concealment.

Author : Peter Schwenger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781461931898
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book At the Borders of Sleep written by Peter Schwenger and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'At the Borders of Sleep' investigates a liminal or threshold state between two fundamental modes of human consciousness, the waking state and the sleeping one - which are not as distinct from one another as is commonly thought. Liminal states are so subtle and evanescent that only literary depictions can do them justice; and so literature, along with philosophy and some science, has generated this book's argument. That argument is then turned back upon literature to show how both reading and writing are liminal experiences, taking place at the edges of conscious thought.

Author : Gayle Greene
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520246306
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Insomniac written by Gayle Greene and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-03-10 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the causes, effects, treatment options, and research in the field of insomnia.