{"product_id":"necessary-nonsense-irving-massey-9780814213797","title":"Necessary Nonsense: Aesthetics, History, Neurology, Psychology","description":"What is nonsense? How has it permeated our day-to-day speech and thought processes in order to become a vital part of the way we interpret the world? In \u003ci\u003eNecessary Nonsense: Aesthetics, History, Neurology, Psychology\u003c\/i\u003e, world-renowned expert Irving Massey commits nearly forty years of scholarly musings on the topic of nonsense to the page. Employing a writing style of overlap, repetition, discontinuity, and contradiction in order to describe the history and of grammatical, philosophical, and semantic nonsense, Massey opens his readers to the cognitive possibilities of accepting nonsense as a fundamental human feature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eNecessary Nonsense\u003c\/i\u003e, Massey explores a range of literary and philosophical subjects, from Immanuel Kant to Lewis Carroll-parsing the ways in which nonsense permeates their writing and dialectics-including an exploration of the inability of those who suffer from Asperger's syndrome to distinguish between metaphor and nonsense, and an investigation of the neural signature of the nonsense words and phrases that occur during the transition from waking to sleep. Massey argues that while nonsense may be the \"archenemy of reason,\" it is also tied to the intrinsic nature of reason; the two, simply put, cannot exist without each other. Through a stunning array of exploratory topics, Massey concludes that we all live under a canopy of nonsense. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Irving Massey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814213790\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814213797\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/08\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2019","brand":"Irving Massey","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43926421733631,"sku":"9780814213797","price":59.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_f3bacc15-0390-4cee-851b-47040259f4e3.jpg?v=1681082997","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/necessary-nonsense-irving-massey-9780814213797","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}