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Roy Wagner

Symbols that Stand for Themselves

157 pages, 22 line drawings  5-1/2 x 8  © 1986

Paper $20.00

ISBN: 9780226869292   Published May 1989

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Too Definite for Words
3. Metaphor Spread Out: The Holography of Meaning
4. Death on the Skin: Mortality and Figure-Ground Reversal
5. Epoch: Real and Unreal Time
6. The Western Core Symbol
7. Conclusion: Third-order Trope and the Human Condition
References
Index
Subjects


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