Introduction

  • The experience of multistable figures or so-called Kippbilder - the sudden and repeated 'kippen' of perception as the same object is seen under different aspects - is fascinating in its own right. However, what animated the year-long discussion leading to this volume was a critical exploration of the proposition that such figures may offer a helpful model for thinking through the intercultural and interdisciplinary effort of productively negotiating between conflicting positions.

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Author:Christoph F. E. HolzheyORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-530519
URL:https://www.ici-berlin.org/oa/ci-08/holzhey_introduction.pdf
DOI:https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-08_01
ISBN:978-3-85132-734-2
ISSN:2627-731X
Parent Title (English):Multistable figures : on the critical potential of ir/reversible aspect-seeing ; Cultural inquiry ; Vol. 8
Publisher:Turia + Kant
Place of publication:Wien
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Year of Completion:2020
Year of first Publication:2014
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2020/03/09
Tag:Aesthetics; Aspect seeing; Critical thinking; Figure of thought; Heuristic; Knowledge, theory of; Multistability; Multistable figures; Science
GND Keyword:Inversionsfigur; Wahrnehmungswechsel; Erkenntnistheorie; Heuristik; Kritisches Denken
Page Number:15
First Page:7
Last Page:21
HeBIS-PPN:462156680
Dewey Decimal Classification:8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik
Sammlungen:CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / ICI Berlin
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen