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19. Henry James, The Painter’s Eye: Notes and Essays on the Pictorial Arts (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1956), 185.
20. William James, The Principles of Psychology, vol. 2 (New York: Dover Publications, 1950), 672.
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23. Ibid., 220.
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32. Ibid., 132.
33. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception, 186.
34. Ibid., 193.
35. Susanne K. Langer, Philosophy in a New Key, 86.
36. Ibid., 227.
37. Susanne K. Langer, Feeling and Form (New York: Scribner’s & Sons, 1953), 220.
38. Robert E. Innis, Susanne Langer in Focus: The Symbolic Mind (Indianopolis: Indiana University Press, 2008), 142.
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Remembering in Art: The Horizontal and the Vertical
1. Søren Kierkegaard, Repetition, in Kierkegaard’s Writings, vol. 6, trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna Hong (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983), 149.
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28. Ibid., 220.
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31. Søren Kierkegaard, Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks, vol. 1, journals AA–DD, ed. Neils Jørgen Cappelørn, Alastair Hannay, David Kangas, Bruce H. Kirmmse, George Pattison, Vanessa Rumble, and K. Brian Söderquist (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007), 246.
Philosophy Matters in Brain Matters
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24. Ibid., 172.
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Kierkegaard’s Pseudonyms and the Truths of Fiction
1. Émile Benveniste, Problems in General Linguistics, trans. Mary Elizabeth Meek (Miami, OH: University of Miami Press, 1971), 208.
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4. Ibid., 255.
5. G. W. F. Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, 2nd ed., trans. J. B. Baillie (London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1931), 794.
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13. Ibid., 627.
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16. Either/Or, Part 2, 263.
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18. Ibid., 131.
19. Either/Or, Part 1, 222.
20. Ibid., 225.
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23. Ibid.
24. The Point of View, KW, vol. 22, 177.
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36. Ibid., 73.
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40. Ibid., 25.
41. Roger Poole, Kierkegaard: The Indirect Communication (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1993), 183.
42. Ibid., 188.
43. Krafft-Ebing, quoted in Owsei Tempkin, The Falling Sickness: A History of Epilepsy from the Greeks to the Beginnings of Modern Neurology, 2nd ed. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1971), 363.
44. Siri Hustvedt, The Shaking Woman, 139.
45. Concluding Unscientific Postscript, 347.
46. Ibid., 234.
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