Article

A Paradox of Perception and a New Riddle of Cognitive Function of Aesthetic Experience

January 2019

DOI:10.14394/sztfil.2019.0014

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University of Warsaw

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Chapter

Textual face: cognition as recognition

May 2019

James Simpson

James Simpson’s central hermeneutic perception for knowledge in the Humanities is that cognition is re-cognition. Before we can know, we must already have known. He examines this paradox with reference to literary examples of facial recognition from, in particular, Chaucer and his reception in the early modern period. Linking literary face to textual face – the whole text as a kind of face – he ... [Show full abstract] applies the lessons learnt from facial recognition to textual recognition; and answers some possible objections to the paradox of knowing being dependent on having already known.