The Kingdom of Infinite Space A Portrait of Your Head 1st Edition by Raymond Tallis 0300142226 9780300142228

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ISBN 10: 0300142226 

ISBN 13: 9780300142228

Author: Raymond Tallis

In this pathbreaking book, one of Britain’s most eloquent and original thinkers writes about the head, what happens in it, and how it is and is not connected to our sense of identity and consciousness. Blending science, philosophy, and humor, Raymond Tallis examines the extraordinarily complex relationship we have with our heads. His aim, as he says, “is to turn readers into astonished tourists of the piece of the world that is closest to them, so they never again take for granted the head that looks at them from the mirror.” Readers will delight that this is precisely what he accomplishes.

The voyage begins with a meditation on the self-portrait of a mirror image, followed by a consideration of the head’s various secretions. Tallis contemplates the air we exhale; the subtle meanings of nods, winks, and smiles; the mysteries of hearing, taste, and smell. He discusses the metaphysics of the gaze, the meaning of kissing, and the processes by which the head comes to understand the world. Along the way he offers intriguing digressions on such notions as “having” and “using” one’s head, and enjoying and suffering it. Tallis concludes with his thoughts on the very thing the reader’s head has been doing throughout the book: thinking.

Table of contents:

Facing Up to the Head

The Secreting Head

First Explicitly Philosophical Digression: Being My Head

The Head Comes To

Airhead: Breathing and Its Variations

Communicating With Air

Second Explicitly Philosophical Digression: Enjoying and Suffering My Head

Communicating Without Air

Notes on the Red-Cheeked Animal: The Geology of a Blush

The Watchtower

The Sensory Room

Third Explicitly Philosophical Digression: Having and Using My Head

Head Traffic: Eating, Vomiting and Smoking

Head on Head: Notes on Kissing

Headgear

Fourth Explicitly Philosophical Digression: Caretaking My Head

In the Wars

The Dwindles

Final Explicitly Philosophical Digression: Knowing (and Not Knowing) My Head

Head and World

The Thinking Head

Epilogue: Heading Off

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